Biography of John James (Jack) Cox

BDoreBCoxJJv1 (3).pdf

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Biography of John James (Jack) Cox

Description

A biography of Jack Cox summarising his civilian life and providing details of his operation to Emden on 24 July 1941. His Wellington, R1397, was shot down on the return flight by Helmut Lent, flying from Leeuwarden, and crashed near a farm in Klaeiterp, Frieseland.

The biography contains a link to a YouTube documentary produced in Dutch by Brinkman Productions in June 2017. This video about R1397 features Jack Cox's relatives talking about him and has war time footage of Wellington crews and aircraft.

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One typewritten page

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This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

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BDoreBCoxJJv1 (3)

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Citation

“Biography of John James (Jack) Cox,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed October 8, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/58926.