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| Name: |
Clinton Leonard Jones, Jr. |
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| Country: |
United States |
| Rank: |
Lieutenant |
| Service: |
United States Air Service |
| Units: |
22nd Aero |
| Victories: |
8 |
| Born: |
01 January 1892 |
| Place of Birth: |
Ross, California, USA |
| Died: |
22 June 1965 |
| Place of Death: |
Sacramento, California, USA |
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Clinton Leonard Jones quit flying after the war but remained in touch with his comrades through his membership in the Daedalians. Before he retired in 1960, he was secretary-treasurer of F. F. Smith and Co., a large seed firm in Sacramento, where he had lived since 1923. He died, age 73, in a convalescent hospital following a lengthy illness.
He was survived by a son and a daughter. |
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| Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) |
| The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clinton Jones, Second Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near Landres-et-St. Georges, France, October 30, 1918. Lieutenant Jones, while attacking four enemy planes (Fokker type), was in turn attacked from above and obliged to dive through a formation of 15 planes (Fokker type). His plane was riddled with bullets, but he managed to destroy one of the enemy machines.
General Orders No. 66, W.D., 1919 |
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| Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) Oak Leaf Cluster |
| The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to Clinton Jones, Second Lieutenant (Air Service), U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action near St. Mihiel, France, October 18, 1918. Second Lieutenant Jones was a member of a patrol which succeeded in hedging in a fast enemy bi-place plane. Approaching the enemy plane, Lieutenant Jones signaled the enemy to give up and land. The reply was a burst of machinegun fire, which cut his wind shield and set fire to his plane. He then closed in and shot the German pilot and sent the plane crashing to the ground. He landed in his own plane and extinguished the flames.
General Orders No. 66, W.D., 1919 |
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| Victories |
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Date |
Time |
Unit |
Aircraft |
Opponent |
Location |
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04 Sep 1918 |
1330 |
22nd |
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Fokker D.VII 1 |
Barnecourt |
| 2 |
28 Sep 1918 |
0900 |
22nd |
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Fokker D.VII |
Ivoiry |
| 3 |
28 Sep 1918 |
0900 |
22nd |
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Fokker D.VII |
Montfaucon |
| 4 |
09 Oct 1918 |
1435 |
22nd |
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DFW C |
Dun-sur-Meuse |
| 5 |
09 Oct 1918 |
1435 |
22nd |
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DFW C 2 |
Aincreville |
| 6 |
18 Oct 1918 |
1135 |
22nd |
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LVG C |
Dennecourt |
| 7 |
27 Oct 1918 |
1540 |
22nd |
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DFW C 3 |
Champiegneulle |
| 8 |
30 Oct 1918 |
1540 |
22nd |
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Fokker D.VII |
St. Georges |
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| 1 |
Shared with Arthur Brooks, F B Tyndall |
| 2 |
Shared with James Beane, Arthur Brooks |
| 3 |
Shared with Jacques Swaab |
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| Books |
- American Aces of World War 1
- by Norman Franks, Harry Dempsey (Illustrator) / Paperback / Osprey Publishing (September 25, 2001)
- Over the Front
- by Norman L. R. Franks, Frank W. Bailey / Hardcover / Grub Street the Basement (May 1992)
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