By: Ardis E. Parshall - November 09, 2012 John R. Barnes, one-time secretary of the West German Mission, was among the missionaries evacuated from Germany on 25  August 1939, at the opening of World War II. He entered the U.S. Army and fought in Europe, eventually reaching his former mission field at the end of the war. Elder/Major Barnes was the first American Latter-day Saint to reestablish contact with the German Saints of Frank...
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