Robert Cozens
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot/Command Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military
Shot down 13 June 1943 in B-17 #42-30164, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Lieutenant Colonel | Pilot/Command Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Military | Brigadier General | Command Pilot | 95th Bomb Group
Killed In Action (KIAn)in the loss of B-17 #42-30164 on the Kiel mission 13 June 1943.
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...
Squadron
B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 21/4/43; Tinker 27/4/43; Memphis 30/4/43; Presque Is 5/5/43; Assigned 334BS/95BG [BG-E] Framlingham 12/5/43; 2m, Missing in Action Kiel 13/6/43 with Capt Harry Stirwalt, Co-pilot: Maj Alan Wilder, Navigator: Walter Thimm, Bombardier:...
Other location
Event | Location | Date |
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Born | Cleveland, Ohio, USA | |
Prisoner of War (POW) | Germany | 13 June 1943 |
Stalag 3C Alt Drewitz Brandenburg, Prussia 52-14 |
Date | Contributor | Update |
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27 October 2021 19:47:44 | jmoore43 | Changes to service number, events and place associations |
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Added POW Camp info to the POW event and a S/N from WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA). |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 October 2021 19:37:12 | jmoore43 | Changes to biography |
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Added a "-" to the A/C tail # in the "Summary biography" to aid clarity & consistency. |
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Date | Contributor | Update |
27 September 2014 18:27:28 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 1371 / MACR 1371/8960 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |