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Dennis O. Jones
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Second Lieutenant
Serial Number:
O-713760
Unit:
557th Bomber Squadron, 387th Bomb Group
Date of Death:
0000-00-00
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Dennis O. Jones was born in 1922 in the UK. He served in the 557th Bomber Squadron, 387th Bomber Group, as a Second Lieutenant and Co-Pilot on the B-26 #43-34151 during World War II. On November 25, 1944, his crew took off from A-71 Clastres airfield in France on a bombing raid in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Upon returning to their airbase, A-71 (Clastres), the plane caught fire and crash-landed near La Neuville-Housett. The weather was bad. Four members of the crew were killed and three survived in this crash. 2Lt Jones was one of the survivors.
Source of information: francecrashes39-45.net