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Claude Charles Payne

Flight Sergeant · 1134608 · United Kingdom

Died: 31 March 1944, aged 34
Fate: Killed in action

Biography

Not known

Burial / commemoration

Cemetery: Runnymede Memorial, United Kingdom

Operations on this date. One raid in this archive was flown on the night of 31 March 1944: Operation Nuremberg raid. (Cross-reference by date — not in itself confirmation this airman flew it.)

748 others in this archive died on 31 March →

Timeline

30 March 1944 Flew Operation Nuremberg raid
Mid-upper gunner, DS836 JI-L — Crashed outbound
31 March 1944 Died
aged 34

Crew & operations

Flew as Mid-upper gunner with No. 514 Squadron.

Operation Nuremberg raid (30 March 1944) — aircraft DS836 JI-L (Avro Lancaster) — Crashed outbound

Crew: H G Darby (Bomb aimer) · James McGahey (Flight engineer) · A McPhee (Navigator) · Donald Charles Cameron Crombie (Pilot) · Roy Hill (Rear gunner) · Morris Joseph Tyler (Wireless operator)

Source: CWGC casualty record: PAYNE, CLAUDE CHARLES → · Commonwealth War Graves Commission