Warren R Cozby

Military

Shot 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

Lieutenant John C "Red" Morgan of the 482nd Bomb Group with a B-17 Flying Fortress. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Lt Red Morgan, Cong, Med of Hon.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • 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

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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

Revisions

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Removed the DUPLICATE so I cleared the nickname field.
Added a "-" to the S/N to aid consistency.

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Added a POW event per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Added a connection to A/C #42-3357 listed in the "Summary biography".

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Added "Possible DUPLICATE" in the Nickname field so an Admin can check out this person.

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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.

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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.

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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