CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - JACK JONES

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JACK JONES

Jack Jones, aviation, radioman in airplane flight is missing somewhere 
in the Pacific, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones of Magnet were informed by 
telegram from the Navy department on October 26.

He is the first Magnet casualty in this war and the first Magnet youth 
to be reported missing in line of duty in World War II. The telegram from 
the Navy department contained no detail but Jack Edwards Jones missing in 
flight.

Only son in the Jones family, Jack enlisted June 10, 1942 and graduated 
from an aviation radio school at Jacksonville, Florida on December 5, 1942. 
After training in aerial gunnery and aviation operation training and command 
he was sent to a base school somewhere in the Pacific. He was top ranking 
student of the First 1943 honor class of that school and graduated in September 
The Magnet youth was a graduate of Magnet High School where he was prominent 
in basketball and other athletic activities. He attended Business College at 
Grand Island until December 1, 1941 when he was appointed to a civil service 
position in the office of the chief signal officer in Washington, D.C. where 
he was employed until entering service.

ARM Jones’ two sister are Mrs. Walter R. Hein, Jr. of Dayton, Ohio and Nellie 
Jones of Magnet. He was born at McLean August 10, 1920 and the family moved to 
Omaha in 1927 and then came to Magnet in 1933. He was a member of the Randolph 
4-H club in 1937 and 1938. 

The Jones received a letter from their son on October 25, the day before the 
navy department’s message arrived.