Donald W Cooper

Military ROLL OF HONOUR

Assigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF. Credited 1 Fw190. Shot down by fighters on a bomber escort mission to Frankfurt am Main, GR and crashed near St Aignan, FR in P-38J 42-67718 on 11 Feb 1944. Killed in Action (KIA).



Awards: AM (OLC), PH.

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Units served with

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: P-38 Lightning
  • Unit: 20th Fighter Group 79th Fighter Squadron

Places

Events

Event Location Date Description

Enlisted

Chicago, IL, USA 8 April 1942

Other

Crashed

King's Cliffe, Peterborough PE8, UK 29 January 1944 Taxiing Accident King's Cliffe/Sta 367 Cat 4 damage 2Lt Donald W Cooper, 29-Jan-44. P-38J 42-67521 - 79FS 20FG 8AF

Died

41110 Saint-Aignan, France 11 February 1944 Shot down by fighters on a bomber escort mission to Frankfurt am Main, GR and crashed near St Aignan, FR in P-38J 42-67718 on 11 Feb 1944. Killed in Action (KIA).

Buried

41110 Saint-Aignan, France 14 February 1944 Interred St Aignan cemetery

Born

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Buried

Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial Re-Interred Epinal American Cemetery and Memorial

Born

Cook County, IL, USA

Based

Kings Cliffe 11 February 1944 Assigned to 79FS, 20FG, 8AF USAAF.

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2159 / MACR 2159, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces Vol 2 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list