James Emory Jones

Vietnam War
Unit5th Special Forces Group
RankSergeant Major U.S. Army
Entered Service FromAlpha Georgia
Date of DeathOctober 3 1966
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Sergeant Major Jones was a member of Command and Control Detachment, 5th Special Forces Group. On October 3, 1966, he was a member of a patrol that had been inserted into Laos near the border or South Vietnam just west of the Demilitarized Zone, when they came under intense enemy fire. He was listed as Missing in Action. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.