Jones Walter Haddon

Monuments

The Monument to the Aviation Martyrs in the War of Resistance Against Japan

F-7A 42-64189 Plaque

Name:

Walter Haddon Jones

Rank:

Staff Sergeant

Serial Number:

32423888

Unit:

24th Combat Mapping Squadron, 8th Photographic Group

Date of Death:

1944-08-11

State:

New York

Cemetery:

Jefferson Barracks National Cem., Missouri

Plot:

Section 82

Row:

Grave:

114B-D

Decoration:

Comments:

Walter Haddon Jones was born in 1907 in New York. He resided in New York County, New York prior to the war. He enlisted in the Army on August 8, 1942 at Fort Jay, Governor's Island, New York. He was noted, at the time of his enlistment, as being employed as a Telegraph operator and also as Married. Walter served as a Staff Sergeant on F-7A (#42-64189), 24th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron, 8th Photographic Reconnaissance Group, U.S. Army Air Force during World War II.

Walter was "Killed In Action" when the F-7A #42-64189 he was on crashed, for an undetermined reason, in India during the war. He was originally interred overseas and was later repatriated in the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, Lemay, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA on March 7, 1950 in a common grave with his crew. He was one of over 2000 Americans who lost their lives defending China from their Japanese invaders from 1941-1945.

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