Robert COX, US Army Air Corps

[Kurtl12]

Looking for a certain Robert Cox "11-3-41" of US Army Air Coprs.
His bracelet were found in Austria after the war and as far as I know later returned to his family.

Mr. Cox probably was part of an aircrew and bailed out over Austria or his aircraft crashed somewhere there.

Can anyone provide further details to me?

"11-3-41" might is his service entry date?

Regards,

Kurtl

[Laurent Rizzotti]

You can search for your airmen by using these two databases:

http://www.usaafdata.com/search for USAAF men killed during WWII

http://www.ww2pow.info/index.php?page=directory&ln=Cox for US POW of WWII

No obvious reply for your case, there is a Robert Cox of the USAAF captured on 18 may 1944 but then the USAAF was operating over Rumania and Yugoslavia. Maybe Robert was not his official first name, but only the usual one.

[RSwank]

Here is a list of Robert Cox named men who enlisted in 1941. None of them seem to have a month and day of 11-3 or 3-11 . (This list may be incomplete) It may be that is the date he was commisioned 2nd Lt. If so, he would no longer have his enlistment serial number.

https://aad.archives.gov/aad/display..._24983=&rpp=50

[Horst Weber]

Originally Posted by Kurtl12

Looking for a certain Robert Cox "11-3-41" of US Army Air Coprs.
His bracelet were found in Austria after the war and as far as I know later returned to his family.

Mr. Cox probably was part of an aircrew and bailed out over Austria or his aircraft crashed somewhere there.

Can anyone provide further details to me?

"11-3-41" might is his service entry date?

Regards,

Kurtl

Good evening Kurtl !

There are two Robert Cox', listed KIA from the U.S. Army Air Corps.

- S/Sgt. Robert L. Cox, AAF s/n 34384873, enlisted Sept. 4th, 1942,
later 92nd BG, 8th AF. KIA on a raid to Bremen, Germany, on Nov. 26th,
1943 as top turret gunner of B-17 #42-3165. MACR #1385.

- S/Sgt Robert F. Cox jr., AAF s/n 34801039, enlisted Mar. 27th, 1943,
later 455th BG, 15th AF. KIA on 15th AF raids to Hungary on July 27th
1944 in B-24 #42-52294. MACR #7031.

On my believe, you should focus your search to the latter one.

Best wishes !

Horst Weber

[Kurtl12]

Gentlemen, have many thanks for your quick response!
Horst Weber had exactly the information I was looking for! Unfortunatly I do not have the MACR 7031 for B-24H #42-52294 by hand. If anyone could share this document with me that would be great.

Any ideas how Mr. Cox was found in Austria?

Cheers,

Kurtl

[RSwank]

On fold3.com there are 5 pages for MACR 7031 misfiled under plane 42-107016.

Here is the link to the cover page. https://www.fold3.com/image/28691145


There is a cover page, the next of kin page, page 2 of the MACR listing the 9th crewman and an eyewitness name, a map showing where the plane #294 was last seen (just outside of Budapest) and the eyewitness statement by Alan B Shaw. The plane went down near or over Budapest. 5 planes from the 455th went down in a very short period of time on this raid. The eyewitness statements for these losses are somewhat confused.

I don't think this Robert Cox was anywhere near Austria.

There is a description of events on 27 July 1944 on this link:

http://www.15thaf.org/304th_BW/455th...20Missions.pdf

Search for Gulbranson on this next link. Gulbranson was the pilot of Cox's plane. The crash sites of 4 of the planes lost have been relocated in Hungary.
Not Gulbranson's crash site apparently.

http://www.455th.org/Newsletter/PDFs/Fall%202008.pdf