wrote on December 6, 2010
Further to my research about F/O (later F/Lt)Ralph Van Den Bok,RAFVR,no408 (Goose)sqdn,RCAF, I now have more info about the escape from Belgium of him and A/F/Lt Gordon Fisher,RCAF.Their aircraft was Hampden AE 197,and was attacked and shot down by then Hauptmann Wilhelm Herget,on the night of 28/29 august 1942.Having baled out,the two men were picked up seperately by \"friendly \" agents ; in an \"evasion\" lasting 3 weeks,Van Den Bok was moved across Belgium and France,along with 3 other Airmen,by Belgian Escape-line \"Comete\",eventually being repatriated in October from Gibraltar. Gordon Fisher found his way (presumably with similar assistance)to Marseille,and was then picked up by boat during SIS Operation \"Titania\",when a number of Airmen,Civilian men and women,spies and special Operatives were evacuated. A detailed description (in French) of Van Den Bok\'s adventures \"on the run\" is available,if anyone wants the website details.