Lynn was a surgeon and was the doctor for the American Presbyterian mission in Yeung Kong (Yangchiang). His wife and daughter, Gladys, and Ann, were room mates of the Adys and Pommerenkes in Stanley. I think I saw Dr. Lynn briefly one or more times in 1941 in Hong Kong.
Lynn exfiltrated Yeung Kong after the war started. He joined the OSS and was designated as a Captain in rank. The OSS in China was nominally under US military control in China then, and agents always were assigned some military rank, pro forma. Lynn did some field work – I know scarcely any details – and I think some planning work for the OSS. When he learned that my father was coming back to China, he contacted him and got him to also join the OSS. Yeung Kong was too dangerous as a mission station. Dad had very useful WWI military experience.
I got just a little re Capt. Lynn from a few reports sent to me by Elizabeth Ride. At the war's end he was back in Yeung Kong and working to organize an OSS presence on Hainan Island. While doing this he got the following word: “THE WAR IS OVER!”.
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Don Ady writes:
Don Ady writes:
Lynn was a surgeon and was the doctor for the American Presbyterian mission in Yeung Kong (Yangchiang). His wife and daughter, Gladys, and Ann, were room mates of the Adys and Pommerenkes in Stanley. I think I saw Dr. Lynn briefly one or more times in 1941 in Hong Kong.
Lynn exfiltrated Yeung Kong after the war started. He joined the OSS and was designated as a Captain in rank. The OSS in China was nominally under US military control in China then, and agents always were assigned some military rank, pro forma. Lynn did some field work – I know scarcely any details – and I think some planning work for the OSS. When he learned that my father was coming back to China, he contacted him and got him to also join the OSS. Yeung Kong was too dangerous as a mission station. Dad had very useful WWI military experience.
I got just a little re Capt. Lynn from a few reports sent to me by Elizabeth Ride. At the war's end he was back in Yeung Kong and working to organize an OSS presence on Hainan Island. While doing this he got the following word: “THE WAR IS OVER!”.
Robert Bell Lynn
In 1940, Robert Bell Lynn was aged 27 and born around 1913.
Source
1. U.S. Census: https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/94426998:2442