Niels Charles Jensen, born on March 13, 1920, in Massena, New York, was the son of Danish immigrants. His father, a former gendarme in the Royal Danish West Indian Gendarmerie Corps, arrived in New York in 1916 from the Dominican Republic, and his mother arrived in 1913.

Jensen enlisted in the US Army on May 2, 1938, was released in 1941, and re-enlisted on June 4, 1941. Trained as a pilot, he served overseas in 1944 with the 91st Group, 323rd Bomber Squadron at RAF Bassingbourn. He joined 2nd Lt. Oscar J. Snow’s crew on June 29, 1944, along with fellow Danish-American Cpl. Walter E. Poulsen. Jensen was among over 30,000 Danish-Americans in the US armed forces during World War II. He was shot down on September 9, 1944, during a mission to Ludwigshaven and remained a POW for the rest of the war. He died in 1990.

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