David M Jones

David M. Jones served with distinction as a pilot and general officer, first with the U.S. Army Air Corps and later with the United States Air Force. His record during World War II includes being one of the Doolittle Raiders whose exploits in April 1942 were dramatized in the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. He then flew combat missions over North Africa, where he was shot down. He was a German prisoner of war for two and a half years, helping with the April 1944 mass escape at Stalag Luft III,which was dramatized in the 1963 movie The Great Escape.