Vernon Y Jones

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UPL 79362 UPL 79362 Picture of Vernon Jones

Curtis Shepard Collection

Object Number - UPL 79362 - Picture of Vernon Jones

Shot down by fighters and crashed near Tongeren on a support mission the Brunswick on 10 Feb 1944 in P-47D #42-7883. Killed in Action (KIA).

DFC/ AM w/ 3 Oak Leaf Cluster

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From left to right: Captain Walker L. Boone, Flight Officer Manuel S. Martinez and Flight Officer Gerry E. Brasher, pilots of the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group, sit on the bonnet of a jeep at Duxford air base. Passed for publication 28 October 1943. Printed caption on reverse: 'Thunderbolts - the "Guardian Angels" of Flying Fortresses. Here are pictures of Thunderbolts P-47s, the famous American fighter planes, which escort Flying Fortresses on their daylight missions over Occupied Europe. Pho

78th Fighter Group

Unit Hierarchy: Group
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Fighter

82nd Fighter Squadron

Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
Air Force: Eighth Air Force
Type Category: Fighter

Aircraft

42-7883

Aircraft Type: P-47 Thunderbolt
Unit: 78th Fighter Group 82nd Fighter Squadron

Places

Duxford

Site type: Airfield
Known as: "Duckpond"

Events

Event	Location	Date	Description
Died		10 February 1944
Born
Buried

Revisions

Date9 Mar 2024 00:10:15

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Newspapers

Date8 Mar 2024 12:47:32

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ABMC National Archives

Date8 Mar 2024 12:37:28

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Curtis Shepard collection

Date27 Sep 2014 18:26:26

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ABMC, MACR 2161, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list