What Happened to James Cobbs

On July 21, 1951, the plane carrying 19-year-old Air Force Corporal James Cobbs to Korea went missing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Alaska. Jimmy and 37 others aboard were never found.

"Oh. I don't think you can measure that kind of loss," Olsen said.

Richard Cobbs still vividly remembers the morning his family received the devastating news.

"I was lying in bed, and my father came to the bedroom door early in the morning. And told us our brother was missing. Said 'Get up.' He was crying," Cobbs said.

The pain lingered in the Cobbs household for years, with the subject becoming too difficult to discuss, especially without remains to mourn.

"My parents kind of withdrew after that. I know my father did. He was never the same," Cobbs said.

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