Observed arrival · 2026-09-27
Red Jacobs, Reassembled from the Record
A family memorial traces James Myron “Red” Jacobs’s life and Navy service through a chronology, photographs, newspaper clippings, family history, and declassified naval reports.
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- The page explains why Jacobs’s military headstone records WWII service while its account of Korean War deployments draws on other records.
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The chronology begins with Jacobs’s 1925 birth in New Boston and follows his family’s move to Rock Island, 1943 enlistment, naval training, and later Korean War-era deployments. The page says his Rock Island National Cemetery headstone reflects the WWII separation records on file at his 1978 burial, while other service details are documented through naval dispatches, news records, and combat-action reports.
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