03 of 9 · Navigator
John R. Barnes
Emporium, Pennsylvania
Serial 02068343 · 31 in the compilation
Born Philadelphia, 31 January 1922, son of Leonard and Gertrude Barnes. Added to the crew at Avon Park on 6 November 1944; he is the ninth name, the one missing from the Tampa order. Thirty-one in the compilation. His officer serial follows Probst’s in the same series — commissioned second, which is why the Tampa order does not name him.
Earned a doctorate at Penn State. Spent much of his career as Director of Pathology at DuPont’s Haskell Laboratory, retiring in 1982. Died 2 June 2011 in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, age eighty-nine.
Nine men, four totals. The compilation’s count, beside the other eight.
In the record
- 95th BG databaseModern compilation of the group’s crew record. Not a paper issued at Horham.
- IWM American ArchiveIdentifies him as navigator of the Spirit of Martinez. Drawn from the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force. A modern compilation, not a paper issued at Horham. The biography was supplied in part by his son.
- American Air MuseumThe other copy of that same entry.
Cite this
John R. Barnes, Navigator. The Spirit of Martinez. https://spiritofmartinez.com/crew/barnes