Edward J Jones

Military

Shot down over Paris on 4 Jul 1944. B-24H AC #42-95317. 2 Killed in Action (KIA), 1Prisoner of War (POW), 5 Evaded (EVD). T/O Harrington 2325 HRS, 4 July, shot down by ME110 south of Paris and crashed 0118hrs, 30 miles SE of Chartres (Autry-sur-Juine). No. 2 engine knocked out and bomb bay envelopped in flames. T/Sergeant Bonnin Prisoner of War (POW).



Member of Meade crew

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Units served with

The insignia of the 490th Bomb Group.
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

Aircraft

  • Aircraft Type: B-24 Liberator
  • Nicknames: Baby Bug, Baby Bug II, Baby Bug III
  • Unit: 490th Bomb Group 493rd Bomb Group 801st Bomb Group 406th Bomb Squadron 850th Bomb Squadron 862nd Bomb Squadron

Events

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Born

Robeson City, North Carolina

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Sources

490th Bomb Group Unit Personnel / Combat Chronology, USAAF SN Website, MACR 6989,  Losses of the 8th & 9th AFs Vol. IV by Bishop & Hey, p.31 w/ pix of ac. John Meade crew., http://www.801492.org/MainMenu.htm / Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia