In response to: Donald K. Jones ’38

Steven Smith

1 Month Ago

On His World War II Service

Interesting. I was doing research on Donald. He flew the Ploesti raid as co-pilot with my cousin Russell Longnecker, who was in the first pilot’s seat. What an awful day it was, but the whole crew made it back to Libya. He was called Deacon Jones by his fellow airmen.

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