ONE SHIP. MANY LIVES. · FAMILY COLLECTION
Arthur Taylor Jones
A face in the ship’s story.
A Navy portrait, a Christmas greeting, and a shellback certificate bring one crew member’s story into view. Shared by his son Bob Jones, these family keepsakes sit alongside the ship’s surviving records.
Arthur T. Jones family collection, shared by his son Bob Jones.
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THE MAN IN THE RECORD
Dates the sources preserve.
Each entry below is tied to a specific record. Ratings retain the spelling used in that source; these dates do not establish when a promotion occurred.
Enlisted
The commissioning muster records this as his enlistment date. Source ↓
Aboard at commissioning
Listed as Jones, Arthur Taylor, with rating F1c(EM). The roll records 30 September 1944 as the date first received aboard. Source ↓
The March muster
The quarterly muster lists Jones, Arthur T., with rating EM3cT. Source ↓
Crossing the Line
His personal shellback certificate records Arthur T. Jones, EM3/c, aboard USS LST-726, bound south across the Equator for Manus Island. Source ↓
FROM THE FAMILY COLLECTION
A Christmas greeting.
The complete card preserves the Navy portrait, printed greeting, and handwritten inscription together. Its date is unknown.
CROSSING THE LINE · 31 MAY 1945
A shellback’s keepsake.
His personal certificate names Arthur T. Jones, EM3/c, aboard USS LST-726. It records the ship bound south across the Equator for Manus Island.
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PROVENANCE & PRESERVATION
The sources behind this page.
Bob Jones identified the two photographs as his father, Arthur T. Jones. Their exact dates have not been established. Descriptions here are editorial; the images are not evidence of a precise promotion date.
All three original uploads are preserved unchanged. The page uses smaller display copies with the complete frames visible. No AI restoration, reconstructed faces, or inferred identification has been applied.
Commissioning muster · 30 September 1944
Manuscript page 2, row 5. Fold3 labels this “1944 – Page 11.” The crew index transcribes his name, rating, enlistment date, and first receipt aboard.
View the commissioning source on Fold3 ↗Quarterly muster · 31 March 1945
Printed page 2, PDF page 30, in the preserved 34-page roll. The rating is transcribed as it appears in that record.
Open PDF page 30 ↗Personal shellback certificate · 31 May 1945
Arthur T. Jones family collection, shared by his son Bob Jones. The certificate’s own wording and rating are recorded separately from the muster rolls.
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The muster records are from the U.S. National Archives, Record Group 24, via Fold3. Fold3 may require an account or subscription. Read the commissioning transcription or explore the ship’s historical account.