World War II
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Fallen
Fallen
County:
Ramsey
Date of Loss:
Branch of Service:
Army
Rank:
Private
Listed on/in the:
Register of North Dakota Veterans World War II 1941-1945 and Korean Conflict 1950-1953, published 1968
Major Battle/Theatre:
Asiatic Pacific Theater
Circumstances:
Died in service in New Hebrides
Biography:
Earl Franklin Jones was born in York, Benson County, North Dakota on April 10, 1917, to Ella Catharyn Jones. He became a resident of Edmore, Ramsey County, North Dakota and he entered the United States Army at Fort Snelling, Minnesota on November 11, 1942. Private Jones served in the Asiatic Pacific Theater and died in service on January 7, 1945, in New Hebrides. He is buried in Plot N, Site 945, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Source: Ancestry/Find a Grave