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Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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He details his daily tasks before operations.
Next he is moved to RAF Wigsley Heavy Conversion Unit for conversion to Halifaxes then Lancasters then ended up at RAF Skellingthorpe.
The social life at Skellingthorpe is popular and he met his first wife.
November 1943 his brother is missing over Dusseldorf.
Each operation he was involved in is described in detail.
Later in his memoir he details where and when he trained.
There is a list of prisoners of war from his squadron and a colour photograph of Reg and two colleagues at the tail of Lancaster 'Just Jane'.
There is a list of Reg's paintings.
He details his post war service via Libya, Cairo, Iran, India and Karachi, ending up at 56 Forward Repair Unit in Rangoon.
In June 1946 he returned to the UK by ship.]]>
Reg Payne]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Anne-Marie Watson]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> British Army]]> Belgium]]> Burma]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Burma--Rangoon]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--London]]> France--Paris]]> France--Toulouse]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> France--Marseille]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Wolfenbüttel]]> Poland]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1944-03-30]]> 1944-03-31]]> 1944-04-05]]> 1944-04-06]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1945]]> 1946]]>
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Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. 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Allocated]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Aachen]]> France]]> France--Montbéliard]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Remscheid]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943-05-23]]> 1943-05-25]]> 1943-05-27]]> 1943-05-29]]> 1943-06-21]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-06-24]]> 1943-06-25]]> 1943-06-28]]> 1943-07-09]]> 1943-07-13]]> 1943-07-15]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-07-25]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-07-31]]> Served at Picton and Port Albert in Ontario, RAF Millom, RAF Harwell, RAF Sculthorpe.
Aircraft flown were Anson, Bolingbroke, Battle, Wellington, Stirling, B17.

Bill flew a total of 36 operations with 214 Squadron, only one of which was a day operation. The targets included Frisian Islands, Karlsruhe, Gennevilliers, Kiel, Brunswick, Saumur, Aulnoye, Gelsenkirchen, Goes, Stuttgart, Russelsheim, off Denmark, off Emden, Darmstadt, Wissembourg, Heereveen, Traben-Trarbach, Fischbach, Bischwiller, Bochum, Cologne & Mannheim, Essen, Saarbruken, Koblenz & Gladbeck, Mönchengladbach, Krefeld, Dortmund Ems Canal, Giessen.
His pilot for his first operation was Flight Sergeant Gilbert and his second, Squadron Leader Jeffries. For the rest of his operations his pilot was Flying Officer Corke.
During operations he fulfilled the role of bomb aimer, air gunner and second navigator at various times. As well as bombing carried out a number of Window, Mandrel and Big Ben Special Duties operations.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Nick Cornwell-Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Ontario]]> Ontario--Picton]]> Ontario--Port Albert]]> Great Britain]]> England--Berkshire]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Norfolk]]> Atlantic Ocean]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Fischbach]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Germany--Gladbeck]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Rüsselsheim]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Traben-Trarbach]]> France]]> France--Aulnoye-Aymeries]]> France--Bischwiller]]> France--Gennevilliers]]> France--Saumur]]> France--Wissembourg]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Goes]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-25]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-23]]> 1944-05-31]]> 1944-06-01]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-07-23]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-28]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-13]]> 1944-08-16]]> 1944-08-17]]> 1944-08-18]]> 1944-09-06]]> 1944-09-11]]> 1944-09-12]]> 1944-09-13]]> 1944-09-14]]> 1944-09-16]]> 1944-09-18]]> 1944-09-23]]> 1944-09-24]]> 1944-09-26]]> 1944-09-29]]> 1944-09-30]]> 1944-10-05]]> 1944-10-06]]> 1944-10-09]]> 1944-10-23]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-10]]> 1944-12-02]]> 1944-12-04]]> 1944-12-05]]> 1944-12-06]]>
Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> France--Aulnoye-Aymeries]]> France--Caen]]> France--Caumont-L'Eventé]]> France--Dieppe]]> France--Dieppe (Arrondissement)]]> France--Flers-de-l'Orne]]> France--Le Havre]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> France--Maintenon]]> France--Orléans]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Revigny-sur-Ornain]]> France--Rouen]]> France--Siracourt]]> France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray]]> France--Vierzon]]> France--Yvelines]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> France--Reims]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Forêt du Croc]]> France--Nieppe Forest]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-18]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-04-28]]> 1944-04-30]]> 1944-05-01]]> 1944-05-03]]> 1944-05-04]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-19]]> 1944-05-20]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-23]]> 1944-05-24]]> 1944-05-25]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-11]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-17]]> 1944-06-18]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-06-29]]> 1944-06-30]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-07-07]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-13]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-30]]> 1944-07-31]]> 1944-08-01]]> He describes individual operations in detail. He and his crew were transferred to Faldingworth where the condition of their aircraft was poor. These were quickly replaced with new aircraft. His crew were successful and survived their 30 operations never to meet up again.
He concludes his memoir with seven tailender tales.]]>
Bill Freeman]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> England--Brighton]]> England--Dewsbury]]> Canada]]> England--Stafford]]> Wales--Tredegar]]> England--Northampton]]> England--Grimsby]]> France--Rouen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Denmark--Frederikshavn]]> France--Maintenon]]> France--Mailly-le-Camp]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Dieppe]]> France--Orléans]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Aachen]]> France--Paris]]> England--Lincoln]]> France--Le Havre]]> Poland]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Caen]]> France--Vierzon]]> France]]> Germany]]> Denmark]]> France--Reims]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Northamptonshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Sussex]]> 1943-04-05]]> 1944-03]]> 1944-04-10]]>