Warren R Cozby
MilitaryShot down by an ME109 on a mission to Frankfurt am Main on 8 Feb 1944 in B-17F #42-3357. The crew baled out prior to the a/c crashing near Laon, FR. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
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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
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Unit: 390th Bomb Group 482nd Bomb Group 570th Bomb Squadron 813th Bomb Squadron
Events
Event | Location | Date | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Born |
Kansas City, MO, USA | 27 July 1917 | |
Enlisted |
Dallas, TX, USA | 7 April 1942 | |
Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Barth, Germany | 8 February 1944 | Stalag Luft 1 Barth-Vogelsang Prussia 54-12 |
Died |
China Spring, TX 76633, USA | 14 June 2016 | |
Buried |
Ranger, TX 76470, USA | 22 June 2016 |
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My father Warren R Cozby enlisted in Dallas, TX on April 7, 1942. He took flight training in Santa Ana, CA; Dos Palos, CA; Lamoore, CA; and ended in Yuma, AZ being discharged as an Aviation Cadet April 11, 1943. He then enlisted in the USAAF as a 2nd Lt and was sent to England with the 8th Air Forces and flew B-17s as a co-pilot.
Warren R Cozby was my father. He had served in the Civilian Conservation Corps prior to Pearl Harbor. Then he enlisted and was sent to Flight school graduating as a 2nd Lt and sent to England in the 8th Army Air Forces as a Co-Pilot in B-17s. On his 5th mission, his aircraft was shot down over enemy territory and he spent the remainder of the was as a Prisoner of War in Stalag Luft 1 in Prussia until his liberation by the Russians on June 9, 1945.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2781, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces & page 22 in HISTORY OF THE OPERATIONAL PERIOD OF THE 482nd BOMBARDMENT GROUP, D790.G482.M6, 1944