Osce R Jones
Military
Personal research & 4th Fighter Group 'Debden Eagles' by Chris Bucholtz.
Object Number - UPL 15429 - 1st Lt Osce Jones and 2nd Lt Ted lines with his P-51B Mustang 'Thunder Bird'.
Assigned to 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. 21 x combat missions. Failed to Return (FTR), fighter/bomber mission to Rennes, France. A/C P-51B 43-042 hit by Flak, streaming oil and glycol, Lt Jones elected to abandon aircraft, Prisoner of war POW. 7-Jun-44. MACR 5723.
Former tiger keeper at Louisiana State University, his charge between 1942-43 being Mike 'The Fighting Tiger' the football teams mascot.
Post War: Served in Korea. Promoted to Captain.
Awards: AM (OLC), POW, WWII Victory, EAME.
Connections
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Units served with
- Unit Hierarchy: Squadron
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
- Unit Hierarchy: Group
- Air Force: Eighth Air Force
- Type Category: Fighter
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: P-51 Mustang
- Unit: 4th Fighter Group 335th Fighter Squadron
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Dulag Luft Grosstychow Dulag 12
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Louisiana, USA | 4 November 1920 | |
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Other Assigned |
Debden, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11, UK | 4 April 1944 | Assigned to 335FS, 4FG, 8AF USAAF. |
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Other Prisoner of War (POW) |
Zagan, Poland | 7 June 1944 | Prisoner of War (POW). Stalag Luft III. |
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Other Shot down |
Rennes, France | 7 June 1944 | Failed to Return (FTR), fighter/bomber mission to Rennes, France. A/C P-51B 43-042 hit by Flak, streaming oil and glycol, Lt Jones elected to abandon aircraft, Prisoner of war POW. 7-Jun-44. MACR 5723. |
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Died |
Baton Rouge, LA, USA | 11 February 1994 | |
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Buried |
Greenoaks Memorial Park Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge Parish LA | 14 February 1994 | Greenoaks Memorial Park Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana, USA. |
| Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA |
Revisions
Merged with duplicate entry to include details from:
- Ted Damick, VIII Fighter Command pilots list
http://www.aviationarchaeology.com/src/dbmacr.asp?MACR=5723&Submit=Go
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Mike the Tiger: The Roar of LSU By David G. Baker, W. Sheldon Bivin, C. C. Lockwood
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Jones&GSfn=Osce&G…
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 5723 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
