Albert R Cooke

Military

Entered service at Fort Bragg, NC 23 September 1942. Joined 392nd BG 15 November 1943. Rank at end of WW II was T/Sergeant. Pilot-Marvin E. Schollberg. Discharged 12 October 1945. Shot down by fighters and believed to have crashed near Vettleschloss on the return from a mission to Gotha, GR on 24 Feb 1944 in B-24J 42-100344. Prisoner of War (POW)-14 1/2 months.



POW

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Units served with

The insignia of the 392nd Bomb Group.

392nd Bomb Group

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

Aircraft

42-100344

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Unit: 392nd Bomb Group 577th Bomb Squadron

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Events

Event Location Date Description

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Prisoner of war

24 February 1944

Born

Pikeville, North Carolina

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Sources

Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- MACR 2948 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2948, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces