Max W Cook
Military ROLL OF HONOURKilled in Action (KIA) Crashed at Helfta in B-17 Derumbelizer #446084. Silent Heroes Among Us crew picture taken 12 days before crash on p. 102.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Bucket of Bolts | Demobilizer
- Unit: 92nd Bomb Group 327th Bomb Squadron 388th Bomb Group 560th Bomb Squadron
Related media
- Media Type: Document
- Collection Name: William L Beigel Collection
- Object Number: Document 19945
- Description: Extract from Individual Deceased Personnel File (IDPF) for Second Lieutenant Max Cook of the 92nd Bomb Group researched by historian Bill Beigel. The...
Events
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Born |
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | 7 April 1916 | 2nd Lieutenant Max W. Cook was born April 7, 1916. His next of kin were his wife, Pauline M. Cook, and his mother, Bessie O. Brennan. He was from Worland, Wyoming. |
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Died |
11 September 1944 | ||
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Germany | 11 September 1944 | He was the pilot of “Derumbelizer,” B-17 tail #44-6084, of the 92nd Bomb Group, 327th Bomb Squadron, when it was shot down between Merseburg and Halle, Germany, on September 11, 1944. LT Cook and one other aboard the plane were killed. |
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Buried |
Neuville-en-Condroz, 4121 Neupré, Belgium |
Revisions
2nd Lieutenant Max W. Cook was born April 7, 1916. His next of kin were his wife, Pauline M. Cook, and his mother, Bessie O. Brennan. He was from Worland, Wyoming.
He was the pilot of “Derumbelizer,” B-17 tail #44-6084, of the 92nd Bomb Group, 327th Bomb Squadron, when it was shot down between Merseburg and Halle, Germany, on September 11, 1944. LT Cook and one other aboard the plane were killed.
LT Cook is buried at the US Military Cemetery at Neuville-en-Condroz, Belgium.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 8880 / MACR 8880, Silent Heroes Among Us ISBN 1-884687-07-5 interview with Billie Miller, crew member pp. 101-103. / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database