Cochran, Robert Hearne (Sergeant)

Killed in Flying Accident 1943-January-14

Sergeant Robert Hearne Cochran RCAF

Birth Date: 1916-April-16

Born: Pudacah, Kentucky

Parents: George A. Cochran & Martha Wilson Cochran

Spouse: Dorothy Helen Reeves Cochran

Home: Buffalo, New York, USA

Enlistment: Windsor, Ontario

Enlistment Date: 1941-April-21

Service

RCAF

Unit

1 GRS- General Reconnaissance School

Base

RCAF Stn. Malton, Ontario

Rank

Sergeant

Position

Pilot

Service Numbers

R/98168

Home
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Memorial Location
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Anson 6739 was on a navigational exercise. While en-route, the left hand engine failed and the pilot could not maintain altitude. He ditched the aircraft in the Gulf of St. Lawrence near the Magdalen Islands. The aircraft sank in approximately 20 minutes, but the four crew made it safely into a dinghy. They were later sighted by a search aircraft and the two RCAF and two RAAF crew members were rescued by a boat that was directed to them.

Crew: Sergeant R H Cochran RCAF R/98168 pilot Warrant Officer Class 2 J A McKay, RCAF R/50463 Wireless Air Gunner Sergeant C J Turner RAAF trainee Sergeant W P Watts trainee.

link,canadaprimary,https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c12328/1814?r=0&s=2,School Daily Diary Entry â€" 1943-01-14

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Anson 6739

Flight Sergeant Joseph Roy Barnett RCAF

Flight Sergeant Barnett, Joseph Roy (RCAF)
Wireless Air Gunner
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-January-14
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Gordon Charles Bricker RCAF

Leading Aircraftman Bricker, Gordon Charles (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-January-14
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Sergeant Robert Hearne Cochran RCAF

Sergeant Cochran, Robert Hearne (RCAF)
Pilot
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-January-14
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Leading Aircraftman Kenneth Norman Miller RCAF

Leading Aircraftman Miller, Kenneth Norman (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Flying Accident
1943-January-14
Ottawa War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Anson serial: 6739

Avro Anson Mk. V
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
The Museum's Anson Mk. V was built by MacDonald Brothers in Winnipeg in 1944. It flew with No. 7 Photographic Wing and No. 414 Squadron in Ottawa on photo survey work until the late 1940s. In 1956, it was purchased by INCO and used for mineral surveying until 1980, when it was donated to the Museum. The exterior is painted in the yellow colour common to all BCATP trainers and is in its same wartime RCAF markings.

The Avro Anson was known by a number of nicknames including "Faithful Annie" or "Flying Greenhouse". It was the first aircraft to be flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force to have a retractable undercarriage, which was a comparative novelty in 1936. In 1940, a Canadian government owned company, Federal Aircraft Limited, was created in Montreal to manufacture the Anson for Canadian use. Nearly 3,000 Anson aircraft were produced and, in the early days of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), the Anson was the standard trainer for many pilots, observers (navigators), wireless operators and bomb aimers. More than 20,000 aircrew received training on the Anson. In Canadian service, the aircraft was substantially re-designed with the substitution of North American engines and many other airframe and equipment changes. Harold Skaarup web pages

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YouTube Avro Anson History

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Aircraft Images

Anson 6739

Anson Mk. I 6739

Ex RAF W2528. To No. 1 Training Command on 6 August 1941, for use by No. 16 Service Flying Training School at Hagersville, Ontario. Category B crash at 15:30 on 11 May 1942, at St. Williams, Ontario (about 40 miles west-south-west of Dunnville, on the Lake Erie shore near Long Point). Struck trees while attempting a forced landing. To de Havilland for crash repairs, 14 May to 27 July 1942. To No. 1 Training Command when completed. Category A crash on (or before?) 23 August 1943. To No. 6 Repair Depot for write off.

1941-07-12 Taken on Strength de Havilland Canada 2019-08-20
1942-May-11 Accident: 16 Service Flying Training School Loc: St Williams Ontario Names: Griffin
1943-January-14 Accident: 1 Air Observer School Loc: Names: Barnett | Bricker | Cochran | Miller
1943-11-19 Struck off Strength Struck off, reduced to spares and produce 2019-08-20

Unit Desciption

1 GRS (1 General Reconnaisance School)

The General Reconnaissance School trained pilots and air observers in the techniques required for ocean patrol. It was the equivalent to an Operational Training Unit (OTU), and last stop before aircrew were assigned to operations. The topics included DR Navigation, Astro Navigation, Compasses and Instruments, Meteorology, Signals, Reconnaissance, Coding, Ship Recognition, Aerial Photography, and Visual Signals.
NO1 GRS Summerside

Royal Canadian Air Force RCAF.info - RCAF Station Summerside PEI

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Project 44 BCATP

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