Donald A Cowdery
Military ROLL OF HONOURShot down by fighters and crashed near Nordhorn on a mission to Brunswick on 10 Feb 1944 in B-17G #42-97447. Killed in Action (KIA).
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- Date: 5 January 1944
- Date: 4 January 1944
- Date: 22 December 1943
- Date: 16 December 1943
- Date: 13 December 1943
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Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Bridgeport, CT | 8 October 1917 | |
Enlisted |
Hartford, CT | 7 July 1942 | 5'10" 175 lbs |
Buried |
Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial | Ardennes American Cemetery and Memorial Neuville-en-Condroz, Arrondissement de Liège, Liège, Belgium Plot A Row 30 Grave 19 | |
Other Killed in Action (KIA) |
Brandlecht, Germany | 10 February 1944 | Cowdery was KIA when his B-17 was attacked and shot down by German fighters |
Stratford, CT | 118 Warwick Avenue |
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Sources
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2547 / MACR 2547, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database