Cox, Owen James (Flying Officer)

Killed in Action 1944-11-05

Flying Officer Owen James Cox RCAF

Birth Date: 1922

Born:

Home: Toronto, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

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

Base

RAF Amendola, Foggia, Italy

Rank

Flying Officer

Position

Flying Officer

Service Numbers

J/24717

Home
Google MapToronto, Ontario
Final Burial
Google MapEnglesko 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)

Consolidated Liberator B-24 / F-7

(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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