Retirement; Death
Jones retired at the rank of major general on May 31, 1973. He was one of five Doolittle raiders who later became generals; the others are James H. Doolittle, John A. Hilger, Everett W. Holstrom, and Richard A. Knobloch.
Jones died on November 25, 2008, at age 94, at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was preceded in death by his first wife Anita Maddox Jones, and survived by his wife Janna-Neen Johnson-Dingell-Cunningham-Jones, daughter (Jere Jones Yeager), two sons (David Jones and Jim Jones) and a stepdaughter (Ann-Eve Grace Dingell-Cunningham) . At the time of his death, out of the eighty men who participated in the Doolittle Raid, there were ten survivors.
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