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Sergeant Aden E. Jones

Bombardier
95th Bombardment Squadron
- First name:
Aden
- Middle name:
Earl
- Last name:
Jones
- Nickname:
Davey
- Rank Doolittle raid:
Sergeant
- Last rank:
Lieutenant
- Service number:
6580258
- Date of birth:
07 September 1920
- Place of birth:
Flint, Michigan
- Date of death:
09 March 1983
- Place of death:
San Bernadino, California
- Place of the cemetery:
Covina, California
- Name of the cemetery:
Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Additional info

Aden E. Jones was married to Doris Nettie Jones, born Vik. She was born on 16 July 1918 and died 25 September 1995. They married during 1952. The couple had one son. (adoption) Raymond Earl Jones.

Aden had at least one sister named Janet. 

We don't know much more.  Janet Davidson Jones lived in California, if I'm correcly her first husband died in 1943. So please if you can complete this profile contact me. I need your help.

We could not find much information about Aden E. Jones however thanks to the Palm Springs Air Museum California, we can show you some pictures of his Congressional Gold Medal which is shown in he museum. The medal is signed by Richard E. Cole - crew 01 - as you can see on the medal. This medal was donated to the museum by his sister Janet (Joan?) Jones in 2017. By then she was 94 years old!

On 15 April 2015 the Doolittle Raiders were awarded (most of them posthumously ofcourse) with the congressional Golden Medal. 

On the website of he U.S. House of Representa tives we read :

WWII pilots receive Congressional Gold Medal

The Doolittle Tokyo Raiders were honored Wednesday, 15 April 2015 with the Congressional Gold Medal in a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol.

The Raiders were a group of 80 pilots and crew who led an air raid on Tokyo on April 18, 1942, the first raid on Japan after their attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. The raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle, U.S. Army Air Forces.

“To this day, we note that the air raid succeeded not just as a military action, but also as a restoration of that belief in ourselves,” House Speaker John Boehner said in a statement.

Lt. Gen. John Hudson, the director of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, accepted the medal on behalf of the raiders.

They “serve as a model of excellence” for the Air Force, he said.

Only two of the original raiders survive. Lt. Col. Dick Cole, 99, who was Doolittle’s co-pilot, offered his thanks to Members of Congress in a video message. (By then only two of the original 80 raiders are still alive, and several of them joined the president this afternoon for the signing ceremony in the Oval Office)

“On behalf of our fellow raiders, we are honored to accept this award,” he said. He requested the medal be on display at the museum (the National Museum of the United States Air Force)

The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian honor awarded by Congress

Thanks to this newspaper article I found out about the Congressional Gold Medal of Aden E. Jones :  https://eu.desertsun.com/story/news/local/palm-springs/2017/05/24/75-years-later-palm-springs-resident-get-congressional-medal-brothers-wwii-service/337161001/

The medal of Adan E. Jones below =

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On 26 May 2014, President Barack Obama (Richard E. Cole standing rigth)behind Obama) signed Public Law 113-106 awarding the Congressional Gold Medal --  the highest civilian recognition Congress can bestow -- to the 80 members of the Doolittle Tokyo Raid in recognition of their service. The 113th Congress awarded this medal to the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders for their “outstanding heroism, valor, skill, and service to the United States” during the famous raid on Japan on 18 April 1942.

Obama picture taken fron CBS News website.  Copyright picture @ CBS https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-to-award-congressional-gold-medal-to-the-doolittle-raiders/

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Doolittle Raiders Richard E. Cole - crew 01 - and David J. Thatcher - crew 07 - holding the Congressional Gold Medal on 17 April 2015

 

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