Vincent Jones

Vincent Clement Jones (10 June 1915 – 22 July 2003) was an American military historian. He worked at the United States Army Center of Military History from 1955 to 1986 and was the author of Manhattan: The Army and the Bomb, a volume in the United States Army in World War II series.

Biography Vincent Clement Jones was born in Cozad, Nebraska, on 10 June 1915. He entered Park College in Parkville, Missouri, a college his parents had attended, from whence he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1937. While there he earned tuition money working as an usher at dances in Kansas City, Missouri. He went on to earn a Master of Arts degree from the University of Nebraska the following year, writing a thesis on German public opinion in World War I. He then spent a year as a Sanders Institute fellow in History at George Washington University, before entering the University of Wisconsin to pursue his Ph.D. in European history shortly before the outbreak of World War II in Europe. While there, he met his future wife, Katharine "Kay" Cox,

In 1942, shortly after he completed the coursework for his degree, Jones was drafted into the United States Army, He then became a research associate in American history with the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and an assistant professor of history at the Central Connecticut State College. He also authored articles and reviews in professional historical journals. His major work was Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb, a volume in the United States Army in World War II series, which received a Blue Pencil Award from the National Association of Government Communicators in a presentation at the National Press Club on 3 June 1986. Historian Russell F. Weigley wrote in a review for The Washington Post: "For its encyclopedic telling of the details of that story, Jones' book will stand as an indispensable contribution to the history of the atomic age."

Jones was an active member of the American Historical Association, the American Military Institute, the History of Science Society, the American Federation of Government Employees, the Society for History in the Federal Government and the Commission on Military History. He was also a member of the National Audubon Society, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the Maryland Ornithological Society.

Jones died from a pulmonary embolism at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, on 22 July 2003, and was buried at Old Trinity Church Cemetery in Brooklyn, Connecticut, four days later.