World War II Honoree

Oran Dan Jones, Jr.

Branch of Service

U.S. Marine Corps

Hometown

Raymondville, Texas

Honored By

Danny Jones

Served as a Private 1st Class and serving as an Ammunition Carrier in a Machine Gun Section of Company E, Second Battalion, Twenty-second Marines, Sixth Marine Division, during action against enemy Japanese forces at Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands in May 1945. Awarded the silver star for gallantry in action and the purple heart.