SORGE Francis Stewart (F/O) RCAF n° R92744 (NCO) J18403 (Officier)

 

Distinguished Flying Cross
Annonce parue dans le London Gazette le 11 août 1944

Flying Officer Sorge has completed a great variety of sorties including bomber escorts and shipping reconnaissances. He has had many engagements with enemy aircraft, personally destroying two and also one anti-aircraft ship. His keenness and fine fighting spirit have at all times been most commendable.

NOTE: Public Record Office Air 2/9633 has recommendation dated 31 March 1944 when he had flown 89 sorties (180 operational hours). The text is more detailed than the above:

The above pilot has been in the squadron for 20 months and has completed 89 offensive sorties amounting to 180 operational hours. Of these sorties, nine have been fighter sweeps, 67 medium bomber escorts, seven heavy bomber escorts, and four shipping reconnaissances. On 18 of these occasions he has been closely engaged with enemy fighters, and he has destroyed one Focke Wulf 190 and one Messerschmitt 109, badly damaged one flak ship, and left a tanker damaged and smoking. At all times he has shown exceptional keenness to partake in operations to engage the enemy and his aggressive spirit has been a great influence in the squadron.