Remembrances of World War II
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Mss-0370
The Remembrances of World War II detail Jones’ experiences when serving in the 252nd Coastal Artillery Regiment, Battery “E” in Trinidad from 1942-1944, the conversion of its Third Battalion into the 530th Field Artillery Battalion in 1944, and the unit’s posting to Italy in 1945 as part of the II Corps, Fifth Army where it supported the Corps’ campaign in the northern Appennine Mountains and the Po Valley. This included support for the African American 370th Regimental Combat Team and the suppression of a heavy German battery near La Spezia.
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Ulysses Simpson Jones, Jr. was born on February 14, 1918 in Portsmouth, VA the son of Ulysses S. Jones and Annie Fraser Jones. He graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1939 with a B.S. degree and earned a MS from Purdue University in 1942 and a PhD. in soils from the University of Wisconsin in 1947.
During World War II he served with the 252nd Coastal Artillery Regiment, Battery “E” in Trinidad and with the 530th Field Artillery Battalion in Italy. During the Korean War he served on the staff of the 932nd Field Artillery Battalion.
Jones was an associate professor at Mississippi State University from 1948-1953. He was an agronomist with the Olin Chemical Corporation and served as a lecturer at Little Rock University from 1953-1960. From 1960 until he retired in 1982 he was first the Head of Agronomy and Soils at Clemson University and then for the last decade of his career professor of agronomy and soils. Jones was the author of the textbook Fertilizers and Soil Fertility.
He married Ann Gayle Plummer Jones in 1941 and they had one daughter, Josephine. Jones died on September 11, 2002 in Clemson, SC.
.05 Cubic Feet (1 folder)
English
The Remembrances of World War II provides information about campaigns in Italy’s northern Appennine Mountains and the Po Valley during World War II through the reminiscences of Ulysses S. Jones who served with the 530th Field Artillery Battalion there. The Remembrances also describes his experiences in Trinidad earlier in the war when he was assigned to the 252nd Coastal Artillery Regiment.
Donated by Ulysses S. Jones in 1995. Accession 96-019.
The collection was processed and the finding aid created by James Cross in 2021.
Part of the Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives Repository