JONES, HERBERT CHARPOIT - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Ensign, U.S. Naval Reserve. Birth: 1 December
1918, Los Angeles, Calif. Accredited to: California. Citation: For conspicuous
devotion to duty, extraordinary courage, and complete disregard of his
own life, above and beyond the call of duty, during the attack on the Fleet
in Pearl Harbor, by Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. Ens. Jones organized
and led a party, which was supplying ammunition to the antiaircraft battery
of the U.S.S. California after the mechanical hoists were put out of action
when he was fatally wounded by a bomb explosion. When 2 men attempted to
take him from the area which was on fire, he refused to let them do so,
saying in words to the effect, "Leave me alone! I am done for. Get out
of here before the magazines go off."
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