Jack Harland Cox
Graduating
Class of 1943
Served in
World War II
Private
Jack Harland Cox
Army
1390th Army Air Force Base Unit
Squadron A
Hometown
Madison, WI
Date of Birth
Location of Death
North Africa
Date of Death
Location of Burial
Lakeview Cemetery, Eau Claire, WI
More About Private Cox
Private Jack Harland Cox was drafted into the US Army Air Forces in March 1943. He served with the Air Transport Command in North Africa and in the Azores with the 1390th Army Air Force Base Unit.
Private Cox was a passenger in an automobile accident in June 1944 and later contracted pneumonia from which he would die on Aug. 3, 1944.
Initially buried overseas, he was reinterred in 1949 at Lake View Cemetery in Chetek, Wisconsin.