Vincent Cook

Military

Shot down 4 February 1943 in B-17F 41-24593 'El Lobo' while serving as Tail Gunner. Prisoner of War (POW). Target was Hamm, but aircraft sustained a mid-air collision with a German FW 190 and crashed in tidal land at Filsum/Ostfriesland near Leer, Germany. 6 crew members were killed and 4 became Prisoner of War (POW)s. Cook was at Stalag 17B.



POW

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Units served with

Unofficial emblem, 305th Bomb Group.

305th Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

41-24593

  • Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
  • Nicknames: El Lobo
  • Unit: 305th Bomb Group 364th Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

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Prisoner of War (POW)

Krems an der Donau, Austria 4 February 1943 - 11 January 1946 Held at Stalag 17B, Braunau-Gneikendorf (near Krems), Austria. Officially Evacuated to the United States 11-Jan-46.

Born

Massachusetts

Revisions

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ContributorLee8thbuff
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Lee Cunningham 28-Jan-2015. Added decorations and POW event per National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database; Added SN per MACR 15395; made connections to Place, Aircraft and Mission within existing website data; Edited Biography, added crew position and crash location to Biography per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE.

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ContributorAAM
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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Roll of Honor, MACR 15395, Losses of the 8th and 9th AFs Vol I by Bishop and Hey, p .73, NARA POW web site