CROSSING THE LINE · FAMILY DOCUMENT
Arthur T. Jones’s
shellback certificate.
A personal keepsake from USS LST-726’s Equator crossing on 31 May 1945. The certificate names Arthur T. Jones, EM3/c, and records the ship bound south for Manus Island.
What the document records
- Name
- Arthur T. Jones
- Rating
- EM3/c, as written on the certificate
- Ship
- USS LST-726
- Date
- 31 May 1945
- Voyage
- South across the Equator, bound for Manus Island
- Longitude
- Handwritten “146:30”; no direction is clearly specified
A family source
This is Arthur T. Jones’s personal certificate, shared as an example of the keepsake associated with Crossing the Line. The description and details on this page are editorial transcriptions of the document.
Bob Jones contributed this image from his father’s collection. The original upload is retained without changes; a smaller display copy is used on the page. No AI restoration or reconstruction has been applied.
The original website’s ceremony photographs and captions are preserved separately. Mike Grobbel’s account describes the ship’s Equator crossing and the ceremony held that day.
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