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John Jones (RAF airman)

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Died
  
Unknown

Rank
  
Sergeant

Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Name
  
John Jones

Service/branch
  
British Army Royal Air Force

Unit
  
No. 22 Squadron RFC/No. 22 Squadron RAF

Awards
  
Distinguished Flying Medal

Sergeant John Jones DFM was a World War I flying ace credited with 15 aerial victories.

John Jones served as an observer/gunner in the Bristol F.2 Fighters of No. 22 Squadron. Flying with such pilots as Second Lieutenants Frank George Gibbons, Sydney A. Oades, Stanley Wallage, Frank George Gibbons, and Captain William John Mostyn, Jones began his victory streak on 5 December 1917. Six months later, on 2 June 1918, he had run his total to four enemy aircraft and an observation balloon destroyed, and ten aircraft driven down out of control.

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John Jones (RAF airman) Wikipedia