More information:  
https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2858014/medal-of-honor-monday-navy-ensign-herbert-c-jones/.

https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-people/j/jones-herbert-c.html

Ensign Herbert Charpiot Jones (World War II) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftrosecrans.asp. Californian Herbert C. Jones enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1935, and was commissioned as an ensign in the U.S. Navy before joining the USS California in 1940. On board the vessel on December 7, 1941, he urged fellow sailors to safety, "Leave me alone! I am done for. Get out of here before the magazines go off." Ensign Jones was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor, which brought the country into World War II. In 1943 the U.S. Navy launched a destroyer escort, USS Herbert C. Jones, in his honor.
https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/1337.

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USS Navy destroyer, Herbert Jones, christened by his widow, Joanne.

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