Per Texas DC, son of Frank Truman Cox and Ida Elizabeth Norris.
Recorded in Military records per Tim Cook, FG contributor:
B-25J Mitchell #43-27768, nicknamed "Buffalo Gal" crashed into Corsican mountains after departing base at Ghisonaccia, Corsica, France, while on weather reconnaissance flight.
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The body of Major Frank Cox, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. F. T. Cox, 2215 North Fifth Street, will arrive in Waco Tuesday from Europe for reburial.
Services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at Wilkirson and Hatch chapel, and will be read by Carl Reiner. Interment will be in Waco Memorial Park.
Major Cox lost his life in the Mediterranean Theater in late 1944, after having been cited on several occasions during his overseas duty as a weather officer and mobile weather unit commander.
He went overseas Dec. 10, 1942, and served in the 12th Weather Station in Morocco: was given command of a weather station in Algeria; later served in Tunisia, Cairo, Italy and Corsica.
He was decorated with the Air Medal, European-African-Middle East campaign ribbon with silver star and bronze arrowhead; Distinguished Unit Citation, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Victory Medal.
Major Cox and other crew members of the 310th Bomb Group were originally interred in a U.S. cemetery in Northern Corsica with military honors.
He was an honor graduate of Baylor University in 1941, and specialized in meteorology at the University of Chicago. He was formerly a corporal in the Texas National Guard.
Major Cox entered the Air Force as a meteorologist August 5, 1942, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in December 1942. He was made a captain on April 28, 1943, and was promoted to major a few months before his death in 1944.
Waco Times-Herald
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Army Service No. (ASN): O-484565
Contributor: James Durham (46994633)
Recorded in Military records per Tim Cook, FG contributor:
B-25J Mitchell #43-27768, nicknamed "Buffalo Gal" crashed into Corsican mountains after departing base at Ghisonaccia, Corsica, France, while on weather reconnaissance flight.
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The body of Major Frank Cox, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. F. T. Cox, 2215 North Fifth Street, will arrive in Waco Tuesday from Europe for reburial.
Services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at Wilkirson and Hatch chapel, and will be read by Carl Reiner. Interment will be in Waco Memorial Park.
Major Cox lost his life in the Mediterranean Theater in late 1944, after having been cited on several occasions during his overseas duty as a weather officer and mobile weather unit commander.
He went overseas Dec. 10, 1942, and served in the 12th Weather Station in Morocco: was given command of a weather station in Algeria; later served in Tunisia, Cairo, Italy and Corsica.
He was decorated with the Air Medal, European-African-Middle East campaign ribbon with silver star and bronze arrowhead; Distinguished Unit Citation, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Victory Medal.
Major Cox and other crew members of the 310th Bomb Group were originally interred in a U.S. cemetery in Northern Corsica with military honors.
He was an honor graduate of Baylor University in 1941, and specialized in meteorology at the University of Chicago. He was formerly a corporal in the Texas National Guard.
Major Cox entered the Air Force as a meteorologist August 5, 1942, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in December 1942. He was made a captain on April 28, 1943, and was promoted to major a few months before his death in 1944.
Waco Times-Herald
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Army Service No. (ASN): O-484565
Contributor: James Durham (46994633)
Per Texas DC, son of Frank Truman Cox and Ida Elizabeth Norris.
Recorded in Military records per Tim Cook, FG contributor:
B-25J Mitchell #43-27768, nicknamed "Buffalo Gal" crashed into Corsican mountains after departing base at Ghisonaccia, Corsica, France, while on weather reconnaissance flight.
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The body of Major Frank Cox, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. F. T. Cox, 2215 North Fifth Street, will arrive in Waco Tuesday from Europe for reburial.
Services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at Wilkirson and Hatch chapel, and will be read by Carl Reiner. Interment will be in Waco Memorial Park.
Major Cox lost his life in the Mediterranean Theater in late 1944, after having been cited on several occasions during his overseas duty as a weather officer and mobile weather unit commander.
He went overseas Dec. 10, 1942, and served in the 12th Weather Station in Morocco: was given command of a weather station in Algeria; later served in Tunisia, Cairo, Italy and Corsica.
He was decorated with the Air Medal, European-African-Middle East campaign ribbon with silver star and bronze arrowhead; Distinguished Unit Citation, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Victory Medal.
Major Cox and other crew members of the 310th Bomb Group were originally interred in a U.S. cemetery in Northern Corsica with military honors.
He was an honor graduate of Baylor University in 1941, and specialized in meteorology at the University of Chicago. He was formerly a corporal in the Texas National Guard.
Major Cox entered the Air Force as a meteorologist August 5, 1942, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in December 1942. He was made a captain on April 28, 1943, and was promoted to major a few months before his death in 1944.
Waco Times-Herald
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Army Service No. (ASN): O-484565
Contributor: James Durham (46994633)
Recorded in Military records per Tim Cook, FG contributor:
B-25J Mitchell #43-27768, nicknamed "Buffalo Gal" crashed into Corsican mountains after departing base at Ghisonaccia, Corsica, France, while on weather reconnaissance flight.
**********************************
The body of Major Frank Cox, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. F. T. Cox, 2215 North Fifth Street, will arrive in Waco Tuesday from Europe for reburial.
Services will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at Wilkirson and Hatch chapel, and will be read by Carl Reiner. Interment will be in Waco Memorial Park.
Major Cox lost his life in the Mediterranean Theater in late 1944, after having been cited on several occasions during his overseas duty as a weather officer and mobile weather unit commander.
He went overseas Dec. 10, 1942, and served in the 12th Weather Station in Morocco: was given command of a weather station in Algeria; later served in Tunisia, Cairo, Italy and Corsica.
He was decorated with the Air Medal, European-African-Middle East campaign ribbon with silver star and bronze arrowhead; Distinguished Unit Citation, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Victory Medal.
Major Cox and other crew members of the 310th Bomb Group were originally interred in a U.S. cemetery in Northern Corsica with military honors.
He was an honor graduate of Baylor University in 1941, and specialized in meteorology at the University of Chicago. He was formerly a corporal in the Texas National Guard.
Major Cox entered the Air Force as a meteorologist August 5, 1942, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in December 1942. He was made a captain on April 28, 1943, and was promoted to major a few months before his death in 1944.
Waco Times-Herald
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Army Service No. (ASN): O-484565
Contributor: James Durham (46994633)
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