The Jones County News salutes the local Veteran of the Week

Joseph Benjamin Jackson, Jr. is the local veteran of the week. He served in the United States Marine Corps. as a Lance Corp. from 1941 to 1945. After he completed his basic training at Paris Island, SC, he was assigned to the Accounting Dept. at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He requested a transfer to the South Pacific and deployed to Guam Island where he remained until Dec. 1945. He was discha...

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