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This Remembrance Profile was originally created by Sgt Stephen Willcox - Deceased
Casualty Info
Home Town Ft Worth
Last Address Ft Worth
Casualty Date Jan 05, 1968
Cause MIA-Finding of Death
Reason Air Loss, Crash - Land
Location Vietnam, North (Vietnam)
Conflict Vietnam War
Location of Interment Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
"On 5 January 1968, Capt. William E. Jones was the pilot of the number three aircraft (#61-0068), in a flight of four F105D's on a strike mission over NVN. After pulling off target Capt. Jones radioed that his aircraft had been hit by flak. Capt. Jones engaged the emergency flight control system and headed for the coast. About two minutes later the aircraft was observed to nose down and Capt. Jones ejected. A good parachute was seen and a beeper signal was heard. The parachute was observed all the way to the ground contact in the vicinity of grid coordinates (GC) XJ 522 448, but Capt. Jones was never observed on the ground...The other flight members orbited the area for about 15 minutes, however, no voice contact could be established with Capt. Jones, although his beeper continued to broadcast after the flight members' departed the area. Another flight attempted unsuccessfully to establish radio contact with Capt. Jones. No SAR was conducted due to the location
During the existence of JCRC, the hostile threat in the area precluded any visits to ground inspections of the sites involved in this case. This individual's name and identifying data where turned over to the Four-Party Joint Military Team with a request for any information available. No response was forthcoming.
Capt Jones was given the status of Missing in Action and a presumptive determination of death was made in 1976. His body was recovered on 14 Aug 1985.
