Ernest G. Jones, and his father, Albert Jones, were among the many farmers across southeastern North Carolina that got jobs as carpenters to build Camp Davis, an Army Anti-aircraft trainig base established at Holly Ridge, NC in 1941. This was the first job he ever held that allowed him to pay into Social Security.

Allbert Jones had a large wooden toolbox he made to carry his tools. It was so wet and muddy on the camp that he fashioned "legs" for his toolbox to keep the tools out of the mud.

Jones was born in 1912 and had a growing family by the time the US entered the war. Given his age and the fact that the war ended when it did, he was never called into the Armed Services. Helping to construct Camp Davis was his contribution to America's war effort.