Marvin Powell Jones WWII Collection

Stamp Allen Jones was born December 1916.  He served in the U. S. Army attached as an American unit to the British 8^th Army in North Africa and Italy. Few are aware that an American unit was attached to General Montgomery’s forces.  Following the invasion of North Africa Jones acquired the newspaper that headlined the invasion.  Driven up the Nile several times by Rommel’s forces, the British and Americans eventually drove the Nazi’s out of North African at which point Jones moved on to Anzio, Italy where following the capture of Anzio Annie he was assigned to disassemble the gun and ship it back to the U.S..  Following the war he went to work at Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland where his first assignment was to re-assemble Anzio Annie for the Ordinance Museum at the Proving Grounds. Prior to his death in 1995 he gave his son Marvin Jones the newspaper and a number of other items including the currency donated. Marvin Jones has been employed at the UNCW since August of 2000 and currently works for the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment. He is a 2000 graduate of UNCW.