New Mexico National Guardsman remains to be returned home 84 years after his death

PORTALES, N.M. (KRQE) – Eighty-four years after his death, a New Mexico National Guardsman is finally returning home. U.S. Army Sergeant Melvin E. Jones died of malaria in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the summer of 1942. He was 22 years old. During his life, Jones served with the 200th Coast Artillery Regiment in the Philippines [...]