Willys Pierce Jones

Military
media-44409.jpeg UPL 44409 Garland B. Lloyd Crew
95th BG - 334th BS

Standing Left to Right: Garland B. Lloyd (P), Willys P. Jones (CP), Elton Skinner (N), Russell Allman (B)

Kneeling Left to Right: Marion Gilmore (FE), George R. Robinson (LWG), John Janssen (R/O), Porter B. Hyght (RWG), Victor P. Valek (TG), Ralph P. Rice (BTG)

The crew flew 22 missions and were shot down on 6 March 1944

Object Number - UPL 44409 - Garland B. Lloyd Crew 95th BG - 334th BS Standing Left to Right: Garland B. Lloyd (P), Willys P. Jones (CP), Elton Skinner (N), Russell Allman...

Damaged by fighter attacks on the return from a mission to Klein Machow, Berlin on 6 Mar 1944, B-17G #42-31299 'Junior' maintained formation until finally crashing NW of Beilen, Holland after the crew baled out. Prisoner of War (POW).



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Event Location Date Description

Born

Lake Crystal, Minnesota 13 February 1917

Other

95th BG Combat Tour

Horham Airfield, UK 13 December 1943 - 6 March 1944 22 combat missions

Other

POW

Barth, Germany 15 March 1944 Stalag Luft I (dates are approximate)

Died

Stillwater, MN 23 February 1989

Buried

Stillwater, MN 26 February 1989 Fairview Cemetery Stillwater, MN

Other

Shot Down/Captured

3 miles west of Hijken, Netherlands 6 March 1944

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Sources

Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 2999 / MACR 2999, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database

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