John D Jones
Military09 November 1942 assigned target U/B at St. Nazaire, France. On return, crashed into field beyond runway in B-17F #41-24494.
Shot down in B-17F #41-24474 'Floozy' while serving as Radio Operator. The aircraft was on a mission to bomb the U-Boat pens at La Pallice, France but was damaged by flak over St. Nazaire. The aircraft was attacked again by FW-190s over the Bay of Biscay forcing the pilot to ditch the aircraft into the sea 2 miles off the Ile d' Oussant, off the tip of the Brest Peninsula, France. TSgt Jones was captured. MACR 16448.
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Bombardment
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 18 November 1942
- Official Description:
- Date: 9 November 1942
- Official Description:
Places
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
![A bomber crew of the 306th Bomb Group wave to Picture Post Girls in front of a B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 41-24471) nicknamed "Four of a Kind" at Thurleigh in December 1942. Image stamped on reverse: '"Picture Post" [stamp], 'Passed for Publication 11 Dec 1942.' [stamp], '238038.' [Censor no.] Handwritten in censor's blue pencil on reverse: 'American Flying Fortress crew are introduced to the girls they will meet at Picture Post Xmas Party.'](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-379028.jpg.webp?itok=6Gc6iR0j)
- Site type: Airfield
- Known as: Bedford
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 18 November 1942 - 1 May 1945 | Held at Stalag Luft 3, Sagan-Silesia (now Poland) later moved to Nuremberg-Langwasser. Officially Returned to Military Control (RMC) 1-Jun-45. |
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Other Ditched |
Ushant, France | 18 November 1942 | Managed to exit the aircraft after it was ditched into the sea. |
Revisions
Added an association to Stalag Luft 3 per WW2 POW records at the National Archives (NARA).
Lee Cunningham 27-Nov-2014. Added crash location to description and ditching event per "Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces" Stan Bishop & John A. Hey MBE; added aircraft associations within existing data.
Lee Cunningham 4-Nov-2014. Missing AIr Crew Report (MACR) 16448; National Archives Records Administration (NARA) WWII POW database.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs by Hey and Bishop p.45 494.