Enlisted on 21 January 1943 in Cincinnati Ohio
U.S. Army Air Force, 35793831
Private Jones received training in Jefferson Barracks, MO, Fort Belvoir, VA, Dryersburg, TN, and Mobile, AL, before being sent overseas in October 1943.
853rd Aviation Engineer Battalion
Missing in Action from the sinking of the HMT Rohna.
On November 26, 1943, the day after Thanksgiving, German bombers attacked a convoy of Allied ships traveling through the Mediterranean Sea on its way to the Far Eastern theater of World War II. At first, the assault appeared to be failing. But as the sun set, a remote-controlled glider bomb slammed into the HMT Rohna, a British transport with mostly Americans onboard, and blew gaping holes in both the port and starboard sides. Despite the presence of nearby rescue boats, 1,149 men went down with the Rohna, an incident the U.S. government largely kept secret for decades.
Enlisted on 21 January 1943 in Cincinnati Ohio
U.S. Army Air Force, 35793831
Private Jones received training in Jefferson Barracks, MO, Fort Belvoir, VA, Dryersburg, TN, and Mobile, AL, before being sent overseas in October 1943.
853rd Aviation Engineer Battalion
Missing in Action from the sinking of the HMT Rohna.
On November 26, 1943, the day after Thanksgiving, German bombers attacked a convoy of Allied ships traveling through the Mediterranean Sea on its way to the Far Eastern theater of World War II. At first, the assault appeared to be failing. But as the sun set, a remote-controlled glider bomb slammed into the HMT Rohna, a British transport with mostly Americans onboard, and blew gaping holes in both the port and starboard sides. Despite the presence of nearby rescue boats, 1,149 men went down with the Rohna, an incident the U.S. government largely kept secret for decades.
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Entered the service from Kentucky.
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PFC Strother Mitchell Jones
U.S., Find a Grave® Index, 1600s-Current
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PFC Strother Mitchell Jones
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
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PFC Strother Mitchell Jones
1930 United States Federal Census
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PFC Strother Mitchell Jones
U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949
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PFC Strother Mitchell Jones
U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
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