Aviation Machinist's Mate First Class Jack A. Jones, a veteran of four major battles, who spent four days on a life raft after having his ship sunk during the African campaign, came home last week for the first time since his enlistment in 1940.
Jones, who has served on the Enterprise and Yorktown and is now serving on another aircraft carrier, trained in San Diego, following his enlistment four years ago.
When war was declared he was aboard ship in the Asiatic theater and was in the European-African theater at the time of the African invasion. He has also been on duty in the Aleutians.
He wears the purple heart and campaign ribbons for four major engagements. He has been woulded three times.
The Jones boys are also represented in the armed forces by Lt. Earl L. Jones, Jack's brother, who is serving in the air corps in China, and by another brother, Tech. Sgt. Kenneth Jones, of Camp Ellis, Ill.
Supporting his boys in service by working in a Portland shipyard is Albert Jones, their father, who met Jack in Helena for a brief visit.
Jones left for Portland yesterday with his father to visit another brother, Robert, who is also backing the attack in a defense plant there.
While in Helena, Jones, a former Helena high school athlete, was at the home of his sister, Mrs. George Graham, 563 State street.
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