Robert Cozens
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot/Command Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
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Nicholas William Biltcliffe
Military
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Robert C. Cozens Crew 95th BG - 334th BS Back Row" Robert C. Cozens (P), James W. Reed (CP, Willard W. Brown (N), Earl t. DeWolf (B) Middle Row: John C. Webb (FE), Robert G. Decker (R/O), Robert J. Nicholson (WG), Roy M. Ballard (BTG) Front Row: Nicholas W. Biltcliffe (WG), John S. Burkot (TG)
Service
Units served with
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95th Bomb Group
Group
The 95th Bomb Group was the only Eighth Air Force Group to be awarded three Distinguished Unit Citations. The first, shared by all four Bomb Wing Groups, was for the bombing of an aircraft factory under intense enemy fire at Regensburg on 17 August... -
334th Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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42-29791 Little Jimmie, Memphis Blues
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 21/2/43; Gore 7/3/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-Q] Alconbury 19/4/43 LITTLE JIMMIE; 335BS [OE-Q] Framlingham 12/5/43; on 17/5/43 with W.R. McPherson, Bombardier: Keith Murray wia when nose gun exploded; 336BS [ET-Q] Horham 15/6/43; ...
Missions
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VIII Bomber Command 55
13 May 1943
The large fighter sweeps of the last several weeks have not been successful in drawing any significant numbers of German fighters in opposition. So, if the German will not send his fighters up for a one-on-one confrontation with the American P-47s,...
Associated Place
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Horham
Military site : airfield
Horham airfield was planned and built for RAF use, but handed over to the Eighth Air Force and used initially by the 47th Bomb Group. When they joined the Twelfth Air Force in January 1943, it became home to the B-26 Marauders of the 323rd Bomb Group....
Events
| Event | Location | Date |
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| Born | Fall River, MA | 25 October 1918 |
| Lived in | Fall River, MA | October 1940 |
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179 Cottage Street |
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| Enlisted | Boston, MA | 19 June 1942 |
| Died | Fll River, MA | 30 July 1998 |
Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 23 July 2020 14:26:07 | 466thHistorian | Changes to middlename, service number, highest rank, role, events, place associations, aircraft associations and mission associations |
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https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/person/504 |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:20:33 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / http://95thbg.org/95th_db_pages/left_formation_code/gethonoroll.php |
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