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Homer D. Jones papers

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Contributors:	Jones, Jonathan C. (Donor (dnr))
Collection:	Homer D. Jones Papers
Collection Number:	4154
Format:	Manuscript
Language:	English
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Physical Description:	1.2 Linear feet 1 carton
Summary:	Homer Daniel Jones (born 1917) was a lieutenant with the United States Navy during World War II. He served from 1942 to 1945. He spent much of his service onboard an aircraft carrier, the USS Wasp CVS-18, which was constructed in Massachusetts at a Bethlehem Steel Company-owned yard. After he was discharged in 1945, he worked at New England Coal & Coke Company in Massachusetts, and then at Patterson Oil in Philadelphia. He and his family eventually settled in Princeton, New Jersey. This collection consists of an eclectic mix of items that mostly relate to Jones's World War II service and the USS Wasp. There are many original orders, correspondence, and copies of military documents that Jones collected, including his discharge papers. There is also a notebook that Jones created on the history of the USS Wasp (serving as a USNR historical officer), and a cruise book -- a type of yearbook created for ships in the Navy -- on the ship that further details its construction and wartime movements. There are many clippings in the collection, along with ephemera and publications, most of which relate to WWII in some manner, as well as two other cruise books of the USS Wasp and Air Group 81 and Carrier Air Group 86. Additionally, there are Jones's yearbooks from the Naval Training School of Dartmouth College and the Naval Communications School of Harvard University, as well as items pertaining to the decommissioning of the Wasp in the 1970s and later articles on the ship and naval ships in general.

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1.2 Linear feet 1 carton

Summary:

Homer Daniel Jones (born 1917) was a lieutenant with the United States Navy during World War II. He served from 1942 to 1945. He spent much of his service onboard an aircraft carrier, the USS Wasp CVS-18, which was constructed in Massachusetts at a Bethlehem Steel Company-owned yard. After he was discharged in 1945, he worked at New England Coal & Coke Company in Massachusetts, and then at Patterson Oil in Philadelphia. He and his family eventually settled in Princeton, New Jersey. This collection consists of an eclectic mix of items that mostly relate to Jones's World War II service and the USS Wasp. There are many original orders, correspondence, and copies of military documents that Jones collected, including his discharge papers. There is also a notebook that Jones created on the history of the USS Wasp (serving as a USNR historical officer), and a cruise book -- a type of yearbook created for ships in the Navy -- on the ship that further details its construction and wartime movements. There are many clippings in the collection, along with ephemera and publications, most of which relate to WWII in some manner, as well as two other cruise books of the USS Wasp and Air Group 81 and Carrier Air Group 86. Additionally, there are Jones's yearbooks from the Naval Training School of Dartmouth College and the Naval Communications School of Harvard University, as well as items pertaining to the decommissioning of the Wasp in the 1970s and later articles on the ship and naval ships in general.

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