Ivan Ure]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Polskie Siły Powietrzne]]> Royal Navy]]> Wehrmacht]]> Wehrmacht. Luftwaffe]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Isle of Wight]]> Norway]]> Scotland--Argyllshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Sussex]]> England--Westbourne (West Sussex)]]> England--London]]> England--Hayling Island]]> England--Evenley]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Blackpool]]> Germany]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> France]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Paris]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Poland]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> Lithuania]]> Lithuania--Šilutė]]> Lithuania--Klaipėda]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Poland--Białogard]]> Poland--Pyrzyce (Powiat)]]> Germany--Lauenburg]]> Germany--Lüneburg]]> Germany--Rheine]]> England--London]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Ireland]]> Ireland--Dublin]]> Ireland--Cork]]> Austria]]> Austria--Vienna]]> Libya]]> Libya--Tripoli]]> Libya--Banghāzī]]> Egypt]]> Egypt--Cairo]]> Egypt--Jīzah]]> Egypt--Port Said]]> Kuwait]]> Bahrain]]> Iran]]> Iran--Tehran]]> Scotland--Oban]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> PMcClementsR15010004]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> 'Aircrew V-Victor Halifax Mark III
No 10 Squadron No. 4 Group Royal Air Force- Bomber Command Melbourne Yorkshire England
Completed 38 Operations -July 30, 1944 to Feb 18, 1945 Photo: Feb 20, 1945'.

The aircrew, their roles and home town and country are detailed below.]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1945-02-20]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943-05-22]]> 1943-05-23]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> CC BY-NC 4.0 International license]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Denmark]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Denmark--Region Sjælland]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Wiltshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Germany--Bingen (Rhineland-Palatinate)]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hagen (Arnsberg)]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Osnabrück]]> Germany--Saxony]]> Scotland--Lossiemouth]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Münster in Westfalen]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1944-10-28]]> 1944-10-30]]> 1944-10-31]]> 1944-11-01]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-18]]> 1944-11-21]]> 1944-11-22]]> 1944-11-28]]> 1944-11-29]]> 1944-11-30]]> 1944-12-01]]> 1944-12-02]]> 1944-12-03]]> 1944-12-08]]> 1944-12-09]]> 1944-12-22]]> 1944-12-23]]> 1944-12-30]]> 1944-12-31]]> 1945-01-05]]> 1945-01-06]]> 1945-01-12]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-14]]> 1945-01-15]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-15]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> 1943-08-25]]> By June 1943 Reg is at RAF Cottesmore, 14 Operational Training Unit.
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]]>
He met his future wife in the Unity bar in Lincoln.
Reg survived a crash on a fighter training session when four of his aircrew died.
He also survived ten operations to Berlin. On one operation they were shot up and lost a lot of fuel and had to make an emergency landing at RAF Wittering where no one could be found because they were at a party, on base.
Arriving back on another operation they found everywhere fogged in but landed at RAF Melbourne where they had to stay for a few days until the fog cleared. They had no clothes to change into, no money and no toothbrushes.
After one operation they landed safely and on powering down the aircraft a bomb, which should have been dropped over Germany, came free and rattled down the bomb bay without exploding.
Once they came back with a large hole in the wing, made by a bomb.
On another op they shot down a JU-88 night fighter.
Bombing operations were directed by a Master Bomber who set flares.
Reg and Fred were given Lincoln Imps as mascots but the night Fred died he had left his mascot on another tunic.
He describes the landing procedures when 40 Lancasters arrive back at the same time, most low on fuel.
His navigator, Fl Lt Frank Swingerd calculated winds aloft and Reg transmitted these to 5 Group aircraft.
He describes the various operating areas of the crew on board the Lancaster.]]>
Reg Payne]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Rutland]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> England--Cornwall (County)]]> Germany]]> 1943]]>
Reg Wilson]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Great Britain]]> England--London]]> France--Dunkerque]]> Germany--Magdeburg]]> England--Runnymede]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Chemnitz]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Mühlberg (Bad Liebenwerda)]]> Germany--Eichstätt]]> England--Torquay]]> England--Cambridge]]> England--Manchester]]> Scotland--Gourock]]> Canada]]> Nova Scotia--Halifax]]> United States]]> Georgia--Albany]]> Florida--Lakeland]]> Florida--West Palm Beach]]> Ontario--Trenton]]> Lake Ontario]]> Ontario--Toronto]]> Manitoba--Brandon]]> Manitoba--Winnipeg]]> New Brunswick--Moncton]]> England--Harrogate]]> England--Bournemouth]]> England--Whitley Bay]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Douglas (Isle of Man)]]> Scotland--Elgin]]> Scotland--Findhorn]]> Scotland--Forres]]> Germany--Ramsen]]> England--York]]> France--Lorient]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> England--Flamborough Head]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Ludwigshafen am Rhein]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--IJssel Lake]]> England--Chigwell]]> England--Kew]]> England--Norwich]]> Europe--Frisian Islands]]> Florida]]> France]]> Georgia]]> Ontario]]> New Brunswick]]> Germany]]> Nova Scotia]]> Netherlands]]> North America--Niagara Falls]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Devon]]> England--Essex]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Northumberland]]> England--Surrey]]> England--Yorkshire]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Surrey]]> Manitoba]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1943-10-09]]> 1943-11-11]]> 1943-11-12]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-25]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-11-27]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01-20]]> 1944-01-21]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944-05-25]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> RAF Melbourne]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Jan Waller]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Correspondence]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944-06-02]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Bloomfield]]> Claire Monk]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1943-08]]> On the reverse 'Volunteers Belfast Trained & [undecipherable] 10 Sqd Melbourne York 2 posts [undecipherable] on Halifax & [undecipherable] Bombing run'.
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> MMcClementsR1796607-151021-030006,
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Item 2 is a letter from the Air Ministry advising his parents that he is safe in Sweden. It is captioned 'RAF Letter notifying Roy was in Sweden'.
Item 3 is a telegram to his mother advising that he has returned safely to the UK. It is captioned' Roy's Telegram concerning his return to the UK.'
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Roy Maddock-Lyon]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Steve Baldwin]]> eng]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Denmark]]> Sweden]]> Denmark--Holbæk]]> Sweden--Stockholm]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-02-28]]>
IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Text]]> PMcClementsR15010008]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Yorkshire]]> 1944]]> Records 27 operations (26 night, one day, several abandoned for various reasons) on the following targets in Belgium, France and Germany (some targets not named when duties not carried out): Boulogne, Bremen, Brest, Cherbourg, Cologne, Duisberg, Essen, Hamburg (abandoned), Hamburg, Nantes, Ostend, Paris, Rostock, St. Nazaire, Stettin, Vichy, and Warnemunde. His first pilot on first four operations were Pilot Officer Godfrey, Sergeant Robertson and Pilot Officer Joyce. Also includes technical notes, several personal notes (including a poem), and two endorsements, one in green.]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> David Leitch]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Text. Poetry]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Shropshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> Belgium--Ostend]]> France--Boulogne-sur-Mer]]> France--Brest]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Nantes]]> France--Paris]]> France--Saint-Nazaire]]> France--Vichy]]> Germany--Bremen]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Rostock]]> Poland--Szczecin]]> Poland]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1941-09-11]]> 1941-09-12]]> 1941-09-20]]> 1941-09-21]]> 1941-09-29]]> 1941-09-30]]> 1941-10-01]]> 1941-10-16]]> 1941-10-17]]> 1941-10-28]]> 1941-10-29]]> 1941-10-31]]> 1941-11-07]]> 1941-11-08]]> 1941-12-27]]> 1942-01-06]]> 1942-01-07]]> 1942-01-08]]> 1942-05-05]]> 1942-05-06]]> 1942-05-07]]> 1942-05-08]]> 1942-05-19]]> 1942-05-20]]> 1942-05-30]]> 1942-05-31]]> 1942-06-01]]> 1942-06-02]]> 1942-06-03]]> 1942-06-05]]> 1942-06-06]]> 1942-06-25]]> 1942-06-26]]> 1942-06-27]]> 1942-06-28]]> 1942-07-02]]> 1942-07-03]]> 1942-07-08]]> 1942-07-09]]> 1942-07-13]]> 1942-07-14]]> 1942-07-21]]> 1942-07-22]]> 1942-07-29]]> 1942-07-30]]> 1942-07-31]]> 1942-08-01]]> 1942-08-03]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Derbyshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Somerset]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Modane]]> France--Montbéliard]]> France--Montluçon]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Kiel]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Remscheid]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> Italy--Milan]]> Saskatchewan--Moose Jaw]]> Saskatchewan--Weyburn]]> Scotland--Moray]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Saskatchewan]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1943-04-03]]> 1943-04-04]]> 1943-04-05]]> 1943-05-23]]> 1943-05-24]]> 1943-05-25]]> 1943-05-26]]> 1943-05-27]]> 1943-05-28]]> 1943-05-29]]> 1943-05-30]]> 1943-06-11]]> 1943-06-12]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-06-21]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-06-23]]> 1943-06-24]]> 1943-06-25]]> 1943-06-26]]> 1943-06-28]]> 1943-06-29]]> 1943-07-03]]> 1943-07-04]]> 1943-07-09]]> 1943-07-10]]> 1943-07-13]]> 1943-07-14]]> 1943-07-15]]> 1943-07-16]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1943-07-31]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-03]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-13]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-18]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-24]]> 1943-09-06]]> 1943-09-07]]> 1943-09-15]]> 1943-09-16]]> 1943-09-17]]> 1943-09-29]]> 1943-09-30]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1945-03-01]]> 1945-03-02]]> 1945-03-03]]> 1945-03-04]]> 1945-03-05]]> 1945-03-06]]> 1945-03-07]]> 1945-03-08]]> 1945-03-09]]> 1945-03-10]]> 1945-03-11]]> 1945-03-12]]> 1945-03-13]]> 1945-03-14]]> 1945-03-15]]> 1945-03-16]]> 1945-03-17]]> 1945-03-18]]> 1945-03-29]]> 1945-03-30]]> 1945-04-09]]> 1945-04-10]]> 1945-04-12]]> 1945-04-13]]> 1945-04-14]]> 1945-04-15]]> 1945-04-16]]> 1945-04-17]]> 1945-05-11]]> 1945-05-14]]> 1945-05-23]]> 1945-05-28]]> 1945-05-31]]> 1945-06-16]]> 1945-06-22]]>
Additional information about this item has been kindly provided by the donor.]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Claire Monk]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> MLawsonHA19210824-161128-010002]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Forres]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Essen]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Normandy]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> England--Salford (Greater Manchester)]]> France--Mantes-la-Jolie]]> France]]> Germany]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Lancashire]]> 1944-06-05]]> 1944-06-06]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Mike Connock]]> Cara Walmsley]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Netherlands]]> India]]> Pakistan]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Atlantic Ocean--North Sea]]> Belgium--Ottignies]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Yorkshire]]> France--Abbeville Region]]> France--Bayeux]]> France--Berneval-le-Grand]]> France--Brest]]> France--Cherbourg Region]]> France--Coutances Region]]> France--Douai]]> France--La Rochelle]]> France--Le Mans]]> France--Lorient]]> France--Mantes-la-Jolie]]> France--Meulan]]> France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray]]> France--Normandy]]> France--Rambouillet]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Saint-Lô]]> France--Tergnier (Canton)]]> France--Trouville-sur-Mer]]> France--Vaires-sur-Marne]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bottrop]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Helgoland]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Germany--Kiel]]> India--Kota]]> Netherlands--Hague]]> Pakistan--Karachi]]> Wales--Gwynedd]]> Scotland--Moray Firth]]> Great Britain]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Croixdalle]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1943-12-29]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-03-02]]> 1944-03-03]]> 1944-03-04]]> 1944-03-06]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-03-08]]> 1944-03-11]]> 1944-04-04]]> 1944-04-05]]> 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]]> 1944-05-06]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-06-01]]> 1944-06-02]]> 1944-06-03]]> 1944-06-04]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-14]]> 1944-06-15]]> 1944-06-16]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-06-29]]> 1944-07-01]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-06]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-13]]> 1944-07-17]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-20]]>