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Input Aircraft
Aircraft	Database entry
Fokker G-1	G-1
Fokker D.21	D-XXI
Douglas D8	D8
Fokker C.5	C-V
Fokker T-8	T-8
Arado 66	Ar 66
Messerschmitt 109	Bf 109
Messerschmitt 262	Me 262
Dakota (RAF)	Dakota
C-47 (USAAF)	C-47
Fotress (RAF)	Fortress
B-17 (USAAF)	B-17
DeHavilland Moth	D.H.60
Fieseler Storch	Fi 156
Focke Wulf 200	Fw 200

Input Date
Date	Database entry
22nd June 43	22-06-43
15th October 42	15-10-42
5th March 43	05-03-43

Input Unit
Unit	Database entry
all on KG 4	/KG 4
all on JG 1	/JG 1
4FG/335FS	/335FS
all on 106 Sqdn	106 Sqdn
91BG/323BS	323BS
1 Lvr	1 Lvr

Evader chart: E0513
SGLO	Date crash	Aircraft
T3715	25-05-44	Halifax
MilRank	First Name(s)	Name
F/Sgt.	Ronald	Barnes
Milregnr.	Nationality	Born
1046311	British

Returned Y/N	Evader Fate	Date Captured/Liberated	Place Captured/Liberated	Escape Line
Yes	EVD	18 Sep 1944	Eindhoven	-

Evader Story
F/Sgt. Ronald Barnes was the wireless operator/air gunner of Halifax HX320 that was shot down by a German nightfighter in the early hours of May 25, 1944. The whole crew bailed out in time and survived. Initially five crew members managed to evade capture, but it was only Barnes who would evade 'permanently'. Sooner or later all the others would be captured. After bailing out Barnes landed at 1.30 AM in the meadow of the farm of Martinus Scheepers, his wife Antonetta and their ten children at Broek B 124 at Lieshout. The family took him in, gave him civilian clothes and hid Barnes for about hundred days until 3 September 1944. On this dat Willem J.J. Tak escorted Barnes by bicycle to his own house at Humboldtstraat 10 in Eindhoven. According to the Helper Report of Tak he picked up Barnes at an earlier moment as he hid in his house '35 days'. Barnes was liberated in Eindhoven on 18 (or 19) September 1944 by British troops.
* National Archives, Washington, NAID: 286686217 - NAID: 286692942 * The National Archives, London, WO 208/3351/2009 and WO 208/5405-5436 [still needs to be consulted] * NIOD, 896, Willemsen, W.J.M, inv.nr. 2, 'R. Barnes'

Evader Story

						F/Sgt. Ronald Barnes was the wireless operator/air gunner of Halifax HX320 that was shot down by a German nightfighter in the early hours of May 25, 1944. The whole crew bailed out in time and survived. Initially five crew members managed to evade capture, but it was only Barnes who would evade 'permanently'. Sooner or later all the others would be captured. After bailing out Barnes landed at 1.30 AM in the meadow of the farm of Martinus Scheepers, his wife Antonetta and their ten children at Broek B 124 at Lieshout. The family took him in, gave him civilian clothes and hid Barnes for about hundred days until 3 September 1944. On this dat Willem J.J. Tak escorted Barnes by bicycle to his own house at Humboldtstraat 10 in Eindhoven. According to the Helper Report of Tak he picked up Barnes at an earlier moment as he hid in his house '35 days'. Barnes was liberated in Eindhoven on 18 (or 19) September 1944 by British troops.

Source(s)

* National Archives, Washington, NAID: 286686217 - NAID: 286692942
* The National Archives, London, WO 208/3351/2009 and WO 208/5405-5436 [still needs to be consulted]
* NIOD, 896, Willemsen, W.J.M, inv.nr. 2, 'R. Barnes'

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