Robert S. Cosgrove 1919-1943

COSGROVE, MARTIN

Posted By: j.n. (email)
Date: 9/16/2015 at 14:11:56

TELEGRAPH HERALD 1943

WAR VICTIM

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Lieut. Robert S. Cosgrove
Second Lieut. Robert S. Cosgrove, Dubuque, navigator on a Flying Fortress "Somewhere in England" who was killed in action Sept. 27.

TELEGRAPH HERALD 1943
LIEUT. COSGROVE REPORTED DEAD
Parents Advised That Son Lost His Life Sept. 27

Second Lieut. Robert S. Cosgrove, 24, Dubuque, a navigator on a Flying Fortress, was killed in action over the European area on September 27, according to word received Tuesday evening by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. COsgrove, 933 Central Avenue. Lieut. Cosgrove had been reported "missing in action" in a wire received early in October.

The telegram from the War Department, which was signed by Ulio, the Adjutant General, read as follows: "Report received from the German government through the International Red Cross states your son, Second Lieut. Robert S. Cosgrove, who was previously reported missing in action, was killed in action twenty-seven September in the European area. The Secretary of War extends his deep sympathy. Letter follows."

Born March 17, 1919, in Dubuque, Lieut. Cosgrove attended Sacred heart grade school, following which he graduated from Loras Academy in 1937. In his third year at Loras College, he was inducted into the United States Army Signal Corps and sent to Fort Monmouth, N. J. in July 1941. After basic training at Monmouth, he was sent to San Jose, Calif., where he transferred into the Army Air Forces.

Flight training at Santa Ana, Calif. and Ellington Field Tex., preceded advanced navigation study at the United States Air Forces Navigation School at San Marcos, Tex., where he was commissioned a second lieutenant and awarded his navigator's wings on June 24, 1943. A month later, Lieut. Cosgrove went overseas and since then had been serving as a navigator on a Flyng Fortress at a base "Somewhere in England."

Surviving, besides his parents, are one sister, Mrs. Thomas E. (Janet M.) Martin, Newport News, Va. and several aunts and uncles.