117 North John Wayne Drive

Historical marker location:

117 North John Wayne Drive, Winterset, Iowa

( Marker is on John Wayne Drive south of Jefferson Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1999

c.1890.

In 1917, a German submarine sank the SS Housatonic, a U.S. freighter carrying food and supplies to Europe during World War I, off the coast of South Carolina. Among the crew members who went down with the ship was an Iowa native named Herbert C. Jones, who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during the sinking.