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Jackson County Veterans Memorial WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the War in Iraq. Memorial Honors To Jackson County Soldiers | |
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The main theme will be to highlight the physical beauty of the memorial and USGenWeb Archives for Mississippi - | |
Photo [USGenWeb Archives for Mississippi] United States entered the war on April 6, 1917 Algeo, James McInnis Stone Family Military Newspaper Photos submitted March 6, 2010 by: Greg & Terri Cole gtcole321@yahoo James M. Stone and Charles D. Stone, sons of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Stone Sr., of Hurley, MS. Nineteen-year-old Jimmie, as he popularly called, has the rating of Seaman, First Class. After receiving his training at the United States Navel Training School in Illinois, he was sent to the Southwest Pacific last August where he took part in the invasion of Leyte. Accorting to the news received by his parents he was in sick bay for a while, but now back on duty. Charles, who is 18 years old, is a member of the U. S. Navel Reserve. He has been in the service since May, 1944, and is now somewhere on a ship at sea. He was home last Christmas. His rating is Saeman, second class. Arnold Stone and Jesse Stone of Pascagoula, who are both enlisted men in the U.S. Navy. The former has the rating of Storekeeper Disburser and is at Camp Peary awaiting assignment to overseas duty. He has spent the greater part of the two years that he has been in the Navy at Tampa, Fla., but was at Boca Chica, in the same state, until a short time ago. He has had the pleasure ofspending Christmas with his wife and daughters at their home in Kreole. Jesse Stone has just completed a course at Chef's Steward's in Great Lakes and has the rating of Ship's Cook, First Class. He is stationed at Camp Bradford but has seen two years of service along the Pacific Coast. He was home on leave just before Christmas but left befoe his brother arrived. |
