Jack R Jones

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media-32202.jpeg UPL 32202 Staff Sergeant Jack R. Jones, Radio Counter Measures Operator, 453rd Bomb Group Charles D Taylor collection

"Iowans of the Mighty Eighth", Chapter 22 "Biographies", by Charles D Taylor.

Object Number - UPL 32202 - Staff Sergeant Jack R. Jones, Radio Counter Measures Operator, 453rd Bomb Group

He worked at Des Mines Ordnance Plant before being called up and was finally assigned to Radio School at Sioux Falls before being shipped over to the Group at Buckenham late 1943. He flew on 35 combat missions sitting behind the pilot with three transmitters and one receiver 'every time I picked up a German signal I would jam it and record the time'. In April '45 he was transferred to the 389thBG destined for the Pacific but while back in the States developed blood poisoning and was medically discharged. He returned to college, earning a Doctorate in education and having a career - including that of Principal -in the schools system.



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Colonel Larry Thomas of the 453rd Bomb Group. Handwritten caption on reverse: 'Col Larry Thomas 453BG.'
  • Unit Hierarchy: Group
  • Air Force: Eighth Air Force
  • Type Category: Bombardment

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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / The Liberator Men of Old Buc

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