Cox, Owen James (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-November-05

Flying Officer Owen James Cox RCAF

Birth Date: 1922

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Home: Toronto, Ontario

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Enlistment Date: unkown date

Service

RCAF

Unit

178 (SD) Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Irae Emissarii Emissaries of wrath

Base

RAF Amendola, Foggia, Italy

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Navigator

Service Numbers

J/24717

Home

Toronto, Ontario

Final Burial

Englesko Vojno Groblje
Coll grave 7 B 1-8

Took off from Italy on a supply run to partisans in Yugoslavia.

Aircraft was lost 1944-11-06 over Yugoslavia (means not found in the record).

Killed includes Cox: Flying Officer Kenneth Louis Chapman RCAF J/26001 KIA Belgrade War Cemetery, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Flying Officer Amos Edwin Botsford Denovan RCAF J/25940 pilot KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Flight Sergeant William Francis Beary RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Sergeant Evan Kenneth Corcoran RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Sergeant Raymond Foot Oliver James RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Flight Sergeant John Ward Norman RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8. Flight Sergeant John Humphrey Parry RAF KIA Belgrade War Cemetery Coll. grave 7. B. 1-8.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial

Library and Archives Canada Service Files (may not exist)

Crew or Other Personnel

Liberator KH100

Flying Officer Owen James Cox RCAF

Flying Officer Cox, Owen James (RCAF)
Navigator
Killed in Action
1944-November-05
Englesko Vojno Groblje, Veljka Dugosevica, Belgrade, Serbia

Liberator serial: KH100

(DND Photos via James Craik) (Source Harold A Skaarup Web Page)
Consolidated Liberator G.R. Mk. VIII, RCAF (Serial No. 11130) ex-USAAF Consolidated (Vultee) B-24L Liberator USAAF (44-50154)
ex-RAF (Serial No. 5009), ex-Indian Air Force (Serial No. HE773).
Currently preserved in the Canada Aviation and Space Museum Ottawa Ontario.

The Consolidated B-24 Liberator was an American heavy bomber flown by the RCAF during the Second Word War. It was designed with a shoulder-mounted, high aspect ratio Davis wing which gave the Liberator a high cruise speed, long range and the ability to carry a heavy bomb load. Early RAF Liberators were the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean as a matter of routine. In comparison with its contemporaries the B-24 was relatively difficult to fly and had poor low speed performance; it also had a lower ceiling compared with the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. Of the roughly 18,500 B-24s built in the USA during the war, 148 were flown by the RCAF on long range anti-submarine patrols, with the B-24 serving an instrumental role in closing the Mid-Atlantic gap in the Battle of the Atlantic. The RCAF also flew a few B-24s post war as transports.

Roughly half of all (RAF) Liberator crews in the China-Burma-India (CBI) Theatre were Canadian by the end of the war. John Muir of Vancouver flew the longest mission of the war: 24hrs, 10mins from Ceylon to Burma and back. (Kyle Hood) Harold Skaarup web page

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