BRIGADIER GENERAL EDGAR P. SORENSEN Edgar P. Sorensen was born in Glenville, Minn., in 1893. He graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1915, and in July of that year was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Coast Guard Artillery Corps of the Washington State National Guard. In November 1916 he was promoted to captain, and in December 1917 was appointed a captain in the Signal Corps Reserve of the U.S. Army. His first assignment was at Fort Casey where he served until August 1918, transferring to Fort Worden, Wash., with Coast Artillery troops. He served at Vancouver Barracks, Wash., between September 1918 and September 1919, with troops assigned to spruce production. In November 1919 he entered the Office of the Chief of Air Service in Washington, D.C., and on July 1, 1920, was appointed a first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps of the Regular Army. That same date he was promoted to captain and in October 1920 was transferred to the Air Service. He later became assistant chief and chief of the Enlisted Personnel Division in the office of the Chief of Air Service, and in March 1921 entered the Army Battalion School at Ross Field, Ga., from which he graduated in 1922 with a rating of Balloon Observer. In June 1923 he completed the course in aeronautical engineering at the Air Service Engineering School at McCook Field, Ohio. He was then assigned to duty with the Engineering Division at McCook Field, but was on detached service for several years, pursuing the lighter-than-air courses at Balloon School at Scott Field, Ill., and the Airship School at Langley Field, Va. He also attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at Cambridge, Mass., from which he received his Master of Science degree in aeronautical engineering in 1925. From June 1925 to May 1930, he served as assistant commandant of the Air Corps Engineering School at Wright Field, Ohio, after which he transferred to the Air Corps Primary Flying School at March Field, Calif. Six months later he went to the Philippine Islands, where he served as commanding officer of the Second Observation Squadron at Nichols Field. He returned to the United States in 1934 and served for six months at the Primary Flying School at Randolph Field, Texas, and six months at Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas. He next was assigned as a student at the Air Corps Tactical School at Maxwell Field, Ala., from which he graduated in 1936. The following year he attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. From September 1937 to July 1941 he was stationed at Maxwell Field, Ala., where he served successively as director of the Air Corps Board and commandant of the Air Corps Tactical School. He then was transferred to Washington, D.C., for duty at AAF headquarters, where he became assistant chief of air staff for intelligence. In September 1943 he was assigned to the Sixth Air Force in the Caribbean Defense Command, and the following month became chief of Joint Staff, Joint Command Post, in the Panama Canal Department. In May 1944 he assumed command of the Sixth Air Force. He returned to the United States in January 1945 for assignment to the United States Strategic Bombing Survey in Washington, D.C., and later went overseas with that organization. In August 1945 he was appointed Chief of the Services Division of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey. The following month he returned to the United States and was assigned to the office of the Under Secretary of War in Washington. In October 1946, he became a member of the Army-Navy Munitions Board in Washington. He was appointed commandant of the AAF Institute of Technology at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, in January 1947. General Sorensen has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal and is a rated Command Pilot, Balloon Pilot, Combat Observer, Aircraft Observer, and Balloon Observer. (Current as of February 1948)