HONORED ON PANEL 8W, LINE 97 OF THE WALL
WILBERT JASPER JONES JR
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WILBERT J JONES JR
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LEFT FOR WILBERT JASPER JONES JR
POSTED ON 2.5.2023
POSTED BY: John Fabris
honoring you...
Thank you for your service to our country so long ago sir. As long as you are remembered you will always be with us….
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POSTED ON 11.17.2021
POSTED BY: Donna Moore
Happy Heavenly Birthday
You will forever remain in our hearts and prayers
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POSTED ON 5.24.2020
POSTED BY: ToniAnn Martinez-Beere
Never forgotten
On this Memorial Day 5/25/2020You served with my uncle Anthony Vincent Martinez
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POSTED ON 10.20.2019
POSTED BY: Lucy Micik
Thank You
Dear SSgt Wilbert Jones, Thank you for your service as a Cannon Crewmember. Your birthday is soon, happy birthday. Saying thank you isn't enough, but it is from the heart. Halloween is soon. The time passes quickly. Please watch over America, it stills needs your strength, courage and faithfulness. Rest in peace with the angels.
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POSTED ON 11.11.2018
POSTED BY: [email protected]
Attack on FSB Guin - August 9, 1970
At approximately 11:45 PM on August 9, 1970, FSB Guin, a U.S. fire support base 24 miles northeast of Ham Tan in Binh Thuy Province, RVN, received 6-8 rounds of enemy 82mm mortar fire followed by a ground probe by an undetermined-sized North Vietnamese Army force. The barrage was zeroed in on the howitzer positions of Delta Battery, 2nd Battalion, 40th Artillery. During the attack the enemy employed small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire and received support from .51 caliber machineguns. The infantrymen at Guin returned fire with available weapons and were supported by artillery, a USAF AC-119 gunship and flare ship. Contact continued until the enemy withdrew with unknown losses. U.S. casualties were four killed and ten wounded. The lost Americans included three artillerymen from Delta Battery: SP4 Don W. Avery, SSG Wilbert J. Jones Jr., and PFC Anthony V. Martinez; and one A Company, 5/12th infantryman, PFC John H. Lightsey. Lightsey was posthumously promoted to Corporal. The next day, a lone dead NVA soldier was found in the perimeter wire with numerous other blood trails leading into the jungle. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and the book “These Are My Credentials: The 199Th Light Infantry Brigade in the Republic of Vietnam, 1966-1970” by Robert J. Gouge]
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