Antony Bartlett]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Cathie Hewitt]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> France]]> Atlantic Ocean--Bay of Biscay]]> England--Wiltshire]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> 1943-03-28]]>
'Date 23rd Aug 1943
Target Berlin
A/C Stirling III EE 5938'X'
Capt WO Fear T,
Nav Sgt Ruddy G.H.
AB Sgt Bain A,
W,Op Sgt Woolcott, D.G,
FE Sgt Munro C,
M.U. Sgt Holmes J.A.C, (Can),
R.Gnr F S Davidson A. (Can)'.]]>
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Photo 1 is an aerial view of the beachhead at Anzio, dated Oct 12th 1944.
Sketch map 1 is a route across Sardinia and Corsica to Naples with Anzio and Rome marked.
Photo 2 is a group of men and one woman captioned 'The Macci ('Maquis') 'Mirimas' Lyons. Champagne Night. Wot a night. Oct 9th 44'
Sketch map 2 is of the Gulf of Lyons with Marseilles named and an arrow from photo 2's caption to a circle around Istres. A route is marked heading southeast from the circle.
Photo 3 is is eight airmen around a fire behind are Stirlings, captioned 'Istres France Oct 10th 1944'.
Photo 4 is a wrecked German aircraft with an airman leaning on it, captioned 'Edwards & victim (Line)'.

A further caption reads 'Mt Vesuvius, Pomigliano Italy Oct 12th 1944. Muscat'.
There is also a drawing of a cross of Lorraine.
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From information kindly provided by the donor. 'Appleby crew, Gordon Appleby - Pilot, Len Howell - Navigator, Alf Hitchcock - Air Bomber, Jack Crisp - Wireless Operator, John Higgins - Rear Gunner NOT SHOWN: Samuel Guyan Mid-Upper George Brierly - Flight Eng.']]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> England--Manchester]]> Germany--Remscheid]]> Germany--Wuppertal]]> 1943-07-30]]> His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Acott.]]> 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]]> Belgium]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Netherlands]]> Belgium--Kortrijk]]> Belgium--Leopoldsburg]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--West Midlands]]> England--Wiltshire]]> France--Abbeville Region]]> France--Argentan]]> France--Beauvoir-sur-Mer]]> France--Cherbourg Region]]> France--Caen]]> France--Givors]]> France--Lille]]> France--Limoges]]> France--Nantes]]> France--Nevers]]> France--Rennes]]> France--Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer]]> France--Saint-Pierre-du-Mont (Landes)]]> France--Senlis Region]]> France--Toulouse]]> France--Tours]]> France--Vitry-sur-Seine]]> Germany--Aachen]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Netherlands--Eindhoven]]> Wales--Bridgend]]> Wales--Vale of Glamorgan]]> France--Bordeaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine)]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> France--Langres]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1946]]> 1950]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-04-05]]> 1944-04-06]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-11]]> 1944-04-12]]> 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]]> 1944-04-29]]> 1944-05-10]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-05-19]]> 1944-05-20]]> 1944-05-21]]> 1944-05-22]]> 1944-05-23]]> 1944-05-24]]> 1944-05-25]]> 1944-05-27]]> 1944-05-28]]> 1944-06-03]]> 1944-06-04]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-08]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-23]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-06-27]]> 1944-06-28]]> 1944-06-29]]> 1944-07-04]]> 1944-07-05]]> 1944-07-12]]> 1944-07-13]]> 1944-07-15]]> 1944-07-16]]> 1944-07-18]]> 1944-07-19]]> 1944-07-20]]> 1944-07-21]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-27]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> France]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Norway]]> England--Cambridgeshire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Wiltshire]]> France--Argentan]]> France--Auxi-le-Château]]> France--Brest]]> France--Étampes (Essonne)]]> France--Givors]]> France--Laon]]> France--L'Isle-Adam]]> France--Poitiers]]> Germany--Augsburg]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Braunschweig]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Leipzig]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Schweinfurt]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Norway--Kjeller]]> Wales--Anglesey]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> 1943-10-07]]> 1943-10-08]]> 1943-10-09]]> 1943-10-18]]> 1943-10-20]]> 1943-10-21]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-11-03]]> 1943-11-18]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-22]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-24]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-12-02]]> 1943-12-04]]> 1943-12-16]]> 1943-12-17]]> 1943-12-20]]> 1943-12-24]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-27]]> 1944-01-28]]> 1944-01-30]]> 1944-02-14]]> 1944-02-25]]> 1944-02-26]]> 1944-03-01]]> 1944-03-02]]> 1944-03-15]]> 1944-03-16]]> 1944-03-18]]> 1944-03-19]]> 1944-03-22]]> 1944-03-23]]> 1944-04-10]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-25]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-04-28]]> 1944-04-29]]> 1944-05-31]]> 1944-06-01]]> 1944-06-06]]> 1944-06-07]]> 1944-06-09]]> 1944-06-10]]> 1944-06-12]]> 1944-06-13]]> 1944-06-21]]> 1944-06-22]]> 1944-06-24]]> 1944-06-25]]> 1944-07-24]]> 1944-07-25]]> 1944-07-26]]> 1944-07-31]]> 1944-08-06]]> 1944-08-11]]> 1944-08-12]]> 1944-08-14]]> Photo 2 is Arthur and his crew sat on the top of an aircraft in 1944.
Photo 3 is seven airman standing at the rear of an aircraft.
Photo 4 is eleven aircrew and ground crew, including Arthur, standing and seated on a row of bombs.
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He flew a total of 16 operations (14 night, 2 day), the final operation is recorded as “SHOT DOWN - FAILED TO RETURN”, but he survived and became a prisoner of war. Targets in Belgium, France and Germany were: Aunay, Beauvoir, Caen, Calmont, Chalindrey, Courtrai, Creil, Etampes, Forêt de Cerisy, La Pernelle, Maizy, Nevers, Saumur, Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Thiverney and Wesseling. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Adams.

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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]]>
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a prisoner of war and the Long March.]]> Stuart Green]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> deu]]> nld]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Civilian]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Coventry]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Wilhelmshaven]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Dortmund]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Bremen]]> France--Paris]]> France--Brest]]> France--Laon]]> Belgium--Ostend]]> Denmark--Langeland]]> Czech Republic]]> France]]> Germany]]> Denmark]]> Belgium]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> England--Warwickshire]]> 1939]]> 1940]]> 1941]]> 1942]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1945]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Terry Hancock]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Transport Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Oxfordshire]]> England--Essex]]> England--Staffordshire]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Dorset]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> North Africa]]> Tunisia]]> Tunisia--Sidi Ameur]]> Germany]]> Germany--Rees]]> 1943-04]]> 1943-05]]> 1943-06]]> 1943-07]]> 1943-08]]> 1943-09]]> 1943-10]]> 1943-11]]> 1943-12]]> 1945-01]]> 1945-02-02]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-03]]> 1945-04]]> This item was sent to the IBCC Digital Archive already in digital form. No better quality copies are available.]]> H G Adams]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Royal Australian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Staffordshire]]> Wales--Anglesey]]> Germany]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> Australia]]> New South Wales--Cootamundra]]> New South Wales--Mudgee]]> New South Wales]]> 1944-09]]> 1945-01]]> He was stationed at RCAF Rivers (1 CNS), RAF Dumfries (10 OAFU), RAF Silverstone and Turweston (17 OTU), RAF Wigsley (1654 HCU), RAF Syerston (5 LFS), RAF Metheringham (106 Squadron), RAF Warboys (PFNTU) and RAF Coningsby (97 Squadron). Aircraft flown in were Anson, Wellington, Stirling, Lancaster and Lincoln. He flew on sixteen night and one day operations with 106 Squadron and three night operations with 97 Squadron, total 20 plus two mining and three Exodus. ]]> Great Britain. Royal Air Force]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Log book and record book]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Canada]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Norway]]> Poland]]> Germany--Böhlen]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Dresden]]> Germany--Düren (Cologne)]]> Germany--Düsseldorf]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Harburg (Landkreis)]]> Germany--Ladbergen]]> Germany--Borna (Leipzig)]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Neubrandenburg]]> Poland--Police (Województwo Zachodniopomorskie)]]> Germany--Altenburg (Thuringia)]]> England--Cumberland]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Huntingdonshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> Scotland--Dumfries]]> Norway--Horten]]> Norway--Oslo]]> Poland--Gdynia]]> Canada]]> Manitoba]]> Czech Republic--Most]]> Czech Republic]]> Atlantic Ocean--Oslofjorden]]> Germany--Friedrichshafen]]> Germany--Göttingen]]> Germany--Ladbergen]]> Germany--Leuna]]> Germany--Mittelland Canal]]> Germany--Munich]]> Czech Republic--Most]]> Manitoba--Rivers]]> 1944-11-02]]> 1944-11-04]]> 1944-11-06]]> 1944-11-11]]> 1944-11-16]]> 1944-12-13]]> 1944-12-16]]> 1944-12-18]]> 1944-10-19]]> 1944-12-28]]> 1945-01-07]]> 1945-01-13]]> 1945-01-16]]> 1945-02-07]]> 1945-02-08]]> 1945-02-13]]> 1945-02-14]]> 1945-03-20]]> 1945-03-21]]> 1945-04-07]]> Lawrence Goodman]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Civilian]]> Great Britain]]> Scotland--Midmar (Parish)]]> Scotland--Spean Bridge]]> Scotland--Edinburgh]]> Norway]]> Norway--Tromsø]]> Germany]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> India]]> India--Kolkata]]> Lebanon]]> France]]> France--Nice]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Jersey]]> Greece]]> Greece--Athens]]> Gibraltar]]> Spain]]> Spain--Madrid]]> Turkey]]> Turkey--Istanbul]]> England--Blackwater (Hampshire)]]> Italy]]> Italy--Naples]]> Lebanon--Beirut]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Amsterdam]]> Served at RAF Swinderby, RAF Syerston, RAF Woodhall Spa, RAF Waddington. Aircraft flown were Stirling, Lancaster I, Lancaster III, Lancaster VII.
Flew 25 day and 2 night operations with 617 Squadron to Brest, Westkapelle, Tromso (Tirpitz), Urft Dam, Ijmuiden, Politz, Rotterdam, Oslo Fjord, Bergen, Pootershaven, Bielefeld Viaduct, Nienburg Viaduct, Arnsberg Viaduct, Bremen, Farge, Hamburg, Swinemünde, Berchtesgaden. He also flew two Cook’s Tours and six Operation Dodge flights. His pilot on operations was Flight Lieutenant Goodman.
Includes a hand written note Dam Buster mines dropped in North Sea 31 March 1945. ]]>
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The first two chapters used Bill's words but the third is written by an anonymous friend.]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Pending text-based transcription]]> Foskett, William. Biography]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> United States Army Air Force]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Shellingford]]> United States]]> Georgia--Atlanta]]> Georgia--Macon]]> Georgia--Albany]]> Florida--Arcadia]]> Canada]]> Ontario--Picton]]> Ontario]]> France]]> France--Biarritz]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Belgium]]> Belgium--Antwerp]]> France--Gennevilliers]]> Germany--Kiel]]> France--Saumur]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Netherlands]]> Netherlands--Goes]]> Netherlands--Hoek van Holland]]> Germany--Stuttgart]]> Germany--Duisburg]]> Germany--Frankfurt am Main]]> Germany--Ostfriesland]]> Germany--Emden (Lower Saxony)]]> Germany--Darmstadt]]> France--Wissembourg]]> Germany--Karlsruhe]]> Netherlands--Heerenveen]]> Germany--Traben-Trarbach]]> Germany--Fischbach]]> France--Bischwiller]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Saarbrücken]]> Germany--Koblenz]]> Germany--Gladbeck]]> Germany--Mönchengladbach]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Dortmund-Ems Canal]]> Germany--Giessen (Hesse)]]> Italy]]> Italy--Udine]]> England--Newquay]]> England--Great Yarmouth]]> Slovenia--Log pod Mangartom]]> Slovenia]]> Germany]]> 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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