Osce V Jones
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Object Number - UPL 34503 - Lt Osce Jones
Pilot, Jones Crew. 381st BG, 535th BS, 8th AF. On 24 July 1943, B-17 #42-3217 "Georgia Rebel" crashed in Sweden. Mission #11 to the chemical works (Magnesium, Aluminum) at Heroya, Norway. Hit by flak, dropped bombs, #2 engine feathered and prop bent, hole in port wing near fuel tanks with fuel leak, #3 engine smoking and losing oil pressure. MACR 132. First Eighth Air Force aircraft to fly to Sweden. Interned; returned to England 22 November 1943.
Pilot, Jones crew. 381st BG, 535th BS, 8th AF. Shot down 28 April 1944 in B-17 #42-38061 "Georgia Rebel II". Prisoner of War at Stalag Luft III.
Albany, GA
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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
People
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 31127728
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: waist gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: O-797117
- Highest Rank: First Lieutenant
- Role/Job: Navigator
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37272791
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Waist Gunner
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 37348624
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Top Turret Gunner; Flight Engineer
- Military/Civilian/Mascot: Military
- Nationality: American
- Unit: 381st Bomb Group 535th Bomb Squadron
- Service Numbers: 32364219
- Highest Rank: Staff Sergeant
- Role/Job: Tail Gunner
Aircraft
Missions
- Date: 24 July 1943
- Date: 14 July 1943
- Date: 4 July 1943
- Date: 28 June 1943
- Date: 26 June 1943
Places
- Site type: Airfield
- Site type: Prisoner of war camp
- Known as: Stalag Luft III, Sagan, Germany
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
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Born |
Albany, Georgia, USA | 6 August 1916 | |
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Enlisted |
Albany, GA, USA | 16 September 1940 | |
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Other Interned |
Vännacka, Sweden | 24 July 1943 - 22 November 1943 | |
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Other Prisoner of War |
68-100 Zagan, Poland | 28 April 1944 | Stalag Luft III |
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Based |
28 April 1944 |
Revisions
NARA files verified ASN upon entry and AM w/2 oak leaf clusters. Without personnel records it is unknown how many campaigns he participated in regarding the EAME Campaign Medal but it was at least one. If he applied through official channels after the Prisoner of War Medal was created, he would have received it while living.
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 132 / MACR 132; MACR 4241; Widfelt & Wegmann, Making For Sweden, Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. I by Bishop & Hey p.187 / MACR 4241 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database
