Payne, Robert Campbell

Killed in Action 1942-11-06

Birth Date: 1921

Born:

Son of Melvin T. Payne, and of Mary E. Payne, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Home: Belmont, Ontario

Enlistment:

Enlistment Date: Unknown

Service

RCAF

Unit

55 Sqn- Squadron (RAF)
Nil Nos Tremefacit Nothing makes us afraid

Base

Rank

Pilot Officer

Position

Pilot Officer

Service Numbers

J/16093
Prev: R/69916

55 Squadron (Nil Nos Tremefacit). Pilot Officer Payne, Sergeant S.F. Howe (RAF), and FS T. Sanderson (RAF) all lost their lives when their Baltimore II aircraft AG 898 was shot down in the Mersa Matruh area.

Martin Baltimore

A Royal Air Force Martin Baltimore IV/V bomber. Most aircraft were delivered to Commonwealth countries, a few were kept in the U.S. under the USAAF designation A-30.
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The Martin 187 Baltimore was a twin-engined light attack bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company in the United States as the A-30. The model was originally ordered by the French in May 1940 as a follow-up to the earlier Martin Maryland, then in service in France. With the fall of France, the production series was diverted to Great Britain and after mid-1941, supplied by the U.S. as Lend Lease equipment.

Development of the Baltimore was hindered by a series of problems, although the type eventually became a versatile combat aircraft. Produced in large numbers, the Baltimore was not used operationally by United States armed forces but eventually served with the British, Canadian, Australian, South African, Hellenic and the Italian air forces. it was subsequently used almost exclusively in the Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II.Wikipedia

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