Bobby A. Cook was born in 1918 in California. He resided in Alameda County, California prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps on June 2, 1941, prior to the war, in San Francisco, California. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Actor and also as Single, without dependents. Bobby served as a Captain and Pilot on C-87 #41-23791, 3rd Squadron, 1st Ferry Group, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

C-87 #41-23791 took off, with a crew of 5 & 1 passenger, from Chabua, India on routine ferrying flight to China. They were not seen nor heard from again. The entire crew was lost on April 9, 1943. Having actually gone "Missing" on the above date, he was not officially declared by the military as being dead until December 13, 1945. His name is commemorated on the Walls of the Missing, Manila American Cemetery, Taguig City, Philippines.

In 2008 this C-87 was found by MIA Recoveries. They crashed on a mountain side in the Arunachal Pradesh Providence, India for an unknown reason. No remains were found.

CPT Cook was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945. He also is commemorated on the The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan in Nanjing, China.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.abmc.gov