James Duffie Jones

Rate / Rank
M Sergeant

Birthdate
January 13 1924

Date of Death
January 20 2017

Branch
US Army

Active Duty Service
August 16 1940 - April 30 1963

Conflicts & Campaigns

Normandy; Northern France; Rhineland, Vietnam
European Theater of Operations December 14, 1943 - August 6, 1945.

Significant Duty Stations

878th Signal Depot Company: Advisor to Army Ranger School, Fort Benning, Georgia; South Eastern Signal School, Fort Gordon, Georgia. US Army Europe, First Sergeant of all AG Students

Decorations & Citations

Combat Infantryman Badge; Purple Heart (Wounded; Germany January 31, 1945); Bronze Star Medal; European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three bronze stars; American Defense Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Army Achievement Medal; National Defense Medal: Vietnam Service Medal.

Notes

Born; Whigham, Grady County, Georgia. Retired after 22 years US Army. Brother of Master Sergeant Howard Othan Jones US Air Force, Master Sergeant Russell Carrol Jones US Army, Master Sergeant O. C. Jones US Air Force and Seaman Sam Ulmon Jones US Navy. Burial; Pine Park Cemetery, Pine Park, Grady County, Georgia.