Jones, Alfred Alexander

Rank and Name, Lieutenant Junior Grade Alfred Alexander Jones.

Unit/Placed in, Navy Fighting Squadron 15 (VF-15), United States Naval Reserve.

Alfred is born approx. on 23 Nov. 1919 in Roanoke, Virginia.

Father, Dr. Alfred Power Jones.

Mother, Elizabeth (Lacy) Jones.

Sister(s), Elizabeth Lacy Jones.

Brother(s), Beverly Bryan Jones.

Spouse, Alice Leigh (Barham) Jones.

Alfred enlisted the service in Virginia with service number # 0-102753.

Alfred was KIA over Okinawa the plane was hit by Anti-Aircraft and crashed in sea on 15 June 1944, he is honored with an Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Alfred is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

Alfred also has a Memorial Grave at Fair View Cemetery, Roanoke, Roanoke City, Virginia, USA.

Thanks to, https://archive.org/details/recordofhampd1941945hamp/page/12/mode/2up

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LKGH-152

Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com ww2-europe.com

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.