Chester Cox
Military | Colonel | Group Commanding Officer | 388th Bomb Group
Retired from the USAF with the rank of Brigadier General
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Headquarters (388th Bomb Group)
Headquarters
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Photo of "Devil's Luck" (42-32030) exploding over Munich on July 31, 1944. All crew were killed except for one, Fred Justus, who managed to bail out and spent the rest of the war as a POW. Photo taken by Byron Cook from an adjacent B-17 in formation.
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Captain William D. Roberts - 388th BG Dentist SGT Charles A. Bein - Waist Gunner on the Eccleston Crew - 561st BS
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Colonel Chester C. Cox 388th BG Group Commander 7 October 1944 thru end of hostilities
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Two men posed infront of the 388th Headquaters
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William David
Military | Colonel | Commanding Officer | 388th Bomb Group
AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster/ DFC w/ 2 Oak Leaf Cluster/ PH w/ 1 Oak Leaf Cluster/ Silver Star
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Structure
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388th Bomb Group
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran...
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Chester Cox
Military | Colonel | Group Commanding Officer | 388th Bomb Group
Retired from the USAF with the rank of Brigadier General -
Bruce Riehart
Military | Sergeant | Clerk | 388th Bomb Group
The dedication of the men and their support of each other was remarkable. -
William Roberts
Military | Captain | Dentist | 388th Bomb Group
Stations
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| Based | Knettishall |
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Revisions
| Date | Contributor | Update |
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| 26 November 2014 14:31:27 | rlhengg | Changes to type, aircraft types and commanding officers associations |
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388th Bomb Group Historian |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:42:53 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Units in the UK from ETOUSA Station List, as transcribed by Lt. Col. Philip Grinton (US Army, Retired) and extracted by IWM; air division data from L.D. Underwood, based on the 8th Air Force Strength Report of 6th August 1944, as published in 'The 8th Air Force Yearbook' by Lt. Col. John H Woolnough (1980) |
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