John Owings Cockey Jr
Military
1LT Willford S. Waller - 784th BS Navigator
1LT Mahlen H. Mattison - 784th BS Bombardier
Capt. Roger C. Hamel - 784th BS Commanding Officer 466th Bomb Group collection
466th BG Historian
Object Number - UPL 7324 - Capt. James O. Cockey - 784th BS Operations Officer - later squadron C.O. 1LT Willford S. Waller - 784th BS Navigator 1LT Mahlen H. Mattison -...
Commanding officer of 787th BS Killed in training mission in B-24 # 42-51331. Collision of 'Glad to See Ya' with the Archibald Williams crew over England
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Units served with

- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment

- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment

- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
- Unit: 466th Bomb Group 787th Bomb Squadron
Missions

- Date: 26 August 1944
Places

- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Attlebridge Arsenal, Station 120
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Enlisted |
Baltimore, MD, USA | 2 June 1941 | |
Died |
Gooderstone, King's Lynn PE33, UK | 16 September 1944 | |
Buried |
Reisterstown, MD, USA | All Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery Reisterstown Baltimore County Maryland, USA | |
Glyndon, MD, USA | 212 Central Avenue | ||
Enlisted |
Maryland, USA |
Revisions
'Attlebridge Diaries" - John Woolnough - page 122, 123
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=100277382
466th BG Historian
Combat Chronology Supplement, Attlebridge Arsenal p 265, p 202 / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia