Identified personal item
A Picture Book of Camp Atterbury identified to Pfc. Clifton C. Jones
This booklet 'A Camera trip through Camp Atterbury' depicts the daily life of the GI and WAC stationed at Camp Atterbury. It features multiple pictures of soldiers of the 83rd Infantry Division training for combat in the ETO. The booklet comes in its original mailing enveloppe mailed by Pfc. Clifton Jones of Company K, 329th Infantry Regiment to his brother Mr. Harlan Jones of Grange City, Kentucky.
This booklet once belong to Sgt. Clifton C. Jones (#35671288), Company K, 329th Infantry Regiment.
Sgt. Clifton C. Jones
Sergeant
Clifton C. Jones
Sergeant Clifton C. Jones
Clifton Cody Jones was born on January 12, 1922, in Fleming County, Kentucky, to Lela E. Oliver and George L. Jones.
Clifton C. Jones enlisted in the Army on November 9, 1942, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was one of the early members of K Company. He was with them at basic training in Camp Atterbury, Indiana, then went to the Tennessee maneuvers and to Camp Breckinridge, Kentucky. Early April, he was stationed at Camp Shanks from where they left the US. They headed for Europe and arrived in Liverpool in April 1944 from where they left for Wales by train. The unit boarded in July 1944 for France but due to heavy weather it took them 5 days to arrive at Omaha Beach. He stayed with his Company for the remainder of the war and saw action in Normandy, Northern France and the Rhineland. The Morning Report of July 1944, listed him as Non Battle Casualty and duty to hospital on July 6, 1944 and and transferred to 622nd Clearing Station on July 7, 1944. The 622nd Clearing Station was one of the Rest Centers for shell shocked soldiers. For his service he was awarded, among other decorations, the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Silver Star Medal and the Good Conduct Medal.
Clifton Jones married Catherine Kowalsky (Fritch) on October 26, 1947 in Connersville, Indiana and they had one son together. She also had one son and one daughter with Cebert Dwan Fritch. Clifton C. Jones, of Marion, passed away on May 4, 2005 in Heartland Regional Medical Center. He was preceded in dead by his wife Catherine (1916-2001).
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