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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Peter Deaton]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> Pending text-based transcription. Under review]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Personal research]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Nottingham]]> England--Beeston (Nottinghamshire)]]> Netherlands--Bergen op Zoom]]> Belgium--Bruges]]> England--Bungay]]> England--Ely]]> Netherlands--Overflakkee]]> Belgium]]> Netherlands]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Suffolk]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Service material]]> Royal Air Force]]> Great Britain]]> England--Lancashire]]> Wales--Anglesey]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Isle of Man]]> England--Rutland]]> 1940-09-13]]> 1941-12]]> 1942-01-28]]> 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]]> 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]]> 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]]> Germany]]> Great Britain]]> Italy]]> Atlantic Ocean--Baltic Sea]]> England--Cumbria]]> England--Leicestershire]]> England--Lincolnshire]]> England--Nottinghamshire]]> England--Rutland]]> England--Wiltshire]]> Italy--Po River Valley]]> Germany--Berlin]]> Germany--Bochum]]> Germany--Cologne]]> Germany--Essen]]> Germany--Gelsenkirchen]]> Germany--Hamburg]]> Germany--Kassel]]> Germany--Krefeld]]> Germany--Leverkusen]]> Germany--Mannheim]]> Germany--Mülheim an der Ruhr]]> Germany--Munich]]> Germany--Nuremberg]]> Germany--Oberhausen (Düsseldorf)]]> Germany--Peenemünde]]> Germany--Remscheid]]> Italy--Milan]]> Germany--Hannover]]> Germany--Ruhr (Region)]]> Poland--Gdańsk]]> 1942]]> 1943-06-12]]> 1943-06-13]]> 1943-06-14]]> 1943-06-15]]> 1943-06-16]]> 1943-06-17]]> 1943-06-21]]> 1943-06-22]]> 1943-06-23]]> 1943-07-08]]> 1943-07-09]]> 1943-07-10]]> 1943-07-24]]> 1943-07-25]]> 1943-07-26]]> 1943-07-27]]> 1943-07-28]]> 1943-07-29]]> 1943-07-30]]> 1943-07-31]]> 1943-08-02]]> 1943-08-03]]> 1943-08-07]]> 1943-08-08]]> 1943-08-09]]> 1943-08-10]]> 1943-08-12]]> 1943-08-13]]> 1943-08-17]]> 1943-08-18]]> 1943-08-22]]> 1943-08-23]]> 1943-08-27]]> 1943-08-28]]> 1943-09-22]]> 1943-09-23]]> 1943-09-27]]> 1943-09-28]]> 1943-09-29]]> 1943-09-30]]> 1943-10-02]]> 1943-10-03]]> 1943-10-04]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-10-23]]> 1943-11-26]]> 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]]>
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]]> Atlantic Ocean--English Channel]]> Belgium--Mons]]> Belgium--Namur]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> France--Abbeville]]> France--Abbeville Region]]> France--Arras]]> France--Audinghen]]> France--Beauvais]]> France--Béthune]]> France--Cambrai]]> France--Cambrai Region]]> France--Cherbourg]]> France--Dieppe (Arrondissement)]]> France--Douai]]> France--Le Tréport]]> France--Forges-les-Eaux]]> France--Lisbourg]]> France--Montreuil]]> France--Neufchâtel-en-Bray]]> France--Paris]]> France--Pas-de-Calais]]> France--Pommeréval]]> France--Reims Region]]> France--Roubaix Region]]> France--Rouen]]> France--Saint-Hilaire (Allier)]]> Germany--Bremen]]> 1943]]> 1944]]> 1943-09-16]]> 1943-09-19]]> 1943-10-16]]> 1943-10-20]]> 1943-10-22]]> 1943-10-24]]> 1943-11-11]]> 1943-11-19]]> 1943-11-23]]> 1943-11-25]]> 1943-11-26]]> 1943-12-14]]> 1943-12-30]]> 1943-12-31]]> 1944-01-04]]> 1944-01-05]]> 1944-01-06]]> 1944-01-14]]> 1944-01-21]]> 1944-01-24]]> 1944-01-29]]> 1944-02-03]]> 1944-02-05]]> 1944-02-06]]> 1944-02-29]]> 1944-03-03]]> 1944-03-07]]> 1944-04-19]]> 1944-04-20]]> 1944-04-21]]> 1944-04-22]]> 1944-04-23]]> 1944-04-24]]> 1944-04-26]]> 1944-04-27]]> 1944-04-29]]> 1944-04-30]]> 1944-05-02]]> 1944-05-03]]> 1944-05-04]]> 1944-05-07]]> 1944-05-08]]> 1944-05-09]]> 1944-05-11]]> 1944-05-12]]> 1944-05-13]]> 1944-05-15]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Tricia Marshall]]> eng]]> Text]]> Text. Memoir]]> Royal Air Force]]> Royal Air Force. Bomber Command]]> Great Britain]]> England--Hampshire]]> England--Southampton]]> England--Middlesex]]> England--Buckinghamshire]]> England--Norfolk]]> England--High Wycombe]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Channel Islands]]> Great Britain Miscellaneous Island Dependencies--Jersey]]> 1943-09]]> 1944-02-05]]> 1944-05]]>
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IBCC Digital Archive]]> eng]]> Photograph]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Royal New Zealand Air Force]]> Royal Air Force]]> 1943-08-23]]>
C F Power, Minister of National Defence for Air]]> IBCC Digital Archive]]> Sue Smith]]> eng]]> Text]]> Royal Canadian Air Force]]> Civilian]]> 1942-08-09]]>