Edward Latham enlisted in the Air Corps in October 1942 and followed aerial gunnery training. Sent overseas, he was assigned to the 94th Bomb Group / 332nd Bomb Squadron in England as a Right Waist gunner. On his sixth mission, the 4 March 1944 one to Berlin, he had to bail out of B-17 # 42-39801 and landed in Belgium. Helped by Belgian patriots and members of the COMET evasion network, he was lodged in many different places in Belgium and finally ended up in a secret camp in the Belgian Ardennes, together with tens of other Allied airmen. A page with details about Ed Latham’s evasion is at http://www.evasioncomete.org/flathamef.html - His (short) Escape & Evasion Report is available on-line at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5556534