Back COYNE James Patrick
Service Number J/15233
RCAF
DFC 15th June, 1943 (Gazette Issue 36054 published on the 11 June 1943. Page 1 of 8)
Date A/C Crew Duty Up Down Details of Sortie or Flight
12-Feb-42 P.7018 F/Sgt J.P. Coyne Convoy 11:10 12:35 No Incident.
13-Feb-42 P.7051 F/Sgt J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 13:16 14:10 No Incident.
13-Feb-42 P.7018 F/Sgt J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 18:25 18:55 Last convoy patrol. Sgt Coyne after landing in the half dusk swung off the runway on to one of the many soft patches.
09-Mar-42 P.7004 F/Sgt J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 07:35 08:55 Nothing Seen.
10-Mar-42 P.7117 F/Sgt J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 14:15 15:40 Nothing Seen.
10-Mar-42 P.7117 F/Sgt J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 17:15 17:40 Recalled
24-Mar-42 P.6990 F/Sgt J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 16:40 18:00 Nothing Seen.
26-Mar-42 P.7120 P/O J.P. Coyne Sweep of Irish Sea 15:10 16:20 Nothing Seen.
28-Mar-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 14:00 15:35 Nothing Seen.
28-Mar-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 17:00 18:30 Nothing Seen.
29-Apr-42 P.7110 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 20:30 21:50  
02-Apr-42 P.7117 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 15:45 17:15  
02-Apr-42 P.7117 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 17:20 18:40  
08-Apr-42 P.7100 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 15:30 17:00  
08-Apr-42 P.7003 P/O J.P. Coyne Irish Sea Sweep 19:45 20:55  
12-Apr-42 P.7120 P/O J.P. Coyne Irish Sea Sweep 10:15 11:40 This section was vectored towards “Milk Train” off Carnsore, but plots were inadequate.
14-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 15:35 16:45  
16-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 13:45 15:00  
16-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 16:40 18:10  
16-Apr-42 P.7052 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 18:05 19:45  
20-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 14:40 16:00  
20-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 20:45 21:40  
21-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 07:45 09:00  
21-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 09:40 11:10  
21-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 11:50 12:55  
22-Apr-42 P.7035 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 08:50 09:55  
22-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 16:45 18:00  
22-Apr-42 P.7120 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 21:00 22:45  
23-Apr-42 P.7120 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 07:15 07:40  
23-Apr-42 P.7011 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 20:10 20:40  
23-Apr-42 P.7011 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 11:10 12:15  
23-Apr-42 P.7011 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 12:45 13:50  
27-Apr-42 P.7035 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 16:20 17:35  
27-Apr-42 P.7035 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 18:40 19:45  
29-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 15:00 15:45  
29-Apr-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 18:20 19:30  
29-Apr-42 P.7010 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 20:30 21:55  
03-May-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 19:40 20:30 P/Os W Lovell and Coyne followed a bogy from base area towards St Eval
08-May-42 P.7016 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 08:35 09:50 Vectored far out over Irish Sea. Nothing seen.
09-May-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 15:25 16:00  
13-May-42 P.7051 P/O J.P. Coyne Irish Sea sweep 15:50 16:50 Irish Sea Sweep. Another determined effort to intercept the elusive 1/123
14-May-42 P.6990 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 12:30 13:00  
05-Jun-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne 10 Group Ramrod 19 15:20 16:40 Attack on Lannion aerodrome
15-Jun-42 P.6987 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 17:55 18:50 No incident
19-Jun-42 P.6987 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 19:20 20:30 Enemy aircraft out of range off Irish South coast.
21-Jun-42 P.7120 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 11:05 12:05 No incident.
25-Jun-42 P.6990 P/O J.P. Coyne Irish Patrol 09:00 09:50 Patrol of Irish Sea. No incident.
25-Jun-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 20:25 21:05 No incident
26-Jun-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 12:35 13:40 Enemy aircraft between Anglesea and Ireland. A Valley aircraft engaged it, a JU.88 but we obtained no result
27-Jun-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne Irish Sea Sweep 09:15 10:10 No incident
27-Jun-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 21:55 22:45 No incident
29-Jun-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 18:35 19:30 Bogey identified as Liberator.
30-Jun-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 19:50 20:15 Bogey identified as Liberator.
01-Jul-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 20:10 20:55  
16-Jul-42 P.7057 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 21:20 22:00  
23-Jul-42 P.7062 P/O J.P. Coyne Combined Rhubarb Operation 15:30 16:45 Rhubarb to attack railway at Landivisiau
01-Aug-42 P.7014 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 14:05 15:10 Plots 40 miles West of Lundy, infrequent and fading.
05-Aug-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 13:15 14:25  
05-Aug-42 P.7092 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 18:30 19:30  
10-Aug-42 P.6991 P/O J.P. Coyne       No incident
12-Aug-42 P.7120 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 09:30 10:50 Convoy “STEWARD”
13-Aug-42 P.7003 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 13:40 14:55  
17-Aug-42 P.7003 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 12:35 14:05  
17-Aug-42 P.7013 P/O J.P. Coyne Scramble 15:10 15:45  
10-Sep-42 P.7057 P/O J.P. Coyne Roadstead Operation 18:25 20:05 Searched the Sept Islands – Brehat Shipping lane. Target not found.
16-Sep-42 P.7057 P/O J.P. Coyne A/S/R Search 07:20 08:15 Search for Typhoon pilot who bailed out about 20 miles North of Cherbourg after engine failure on the previous day's operation. Nothing seen.
10-Oct-42 P.7057 P/O J.P. Coyne Shipping Recco 14:10 15:20 Armed recco, Alderney – Cherbourg area, nothing seen.
17-Oct-42 P.7052 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 08:45 10:25 Convoy escorted without incident from Needles to Portland.
17-Oct-42 P.7057 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy Patrol 12:05 13:20 Convoy escorted without incident from Needles to Portland.
07-Nov-42 P.7057 P/O J.P. Coyne Rhubarb 10:30 11:40 This operation had as its target the Valognes – Carentan railway.
10-Nov-42 P.7057 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 14:30 15:00 Convoy of Floating Dock from Needles, Westward.
10-Nov-42 P.7057 P/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 16:05 17:30 Convoy of Floating Dock from Needles, Westward.
18-Nov-42 P.7013 F/O J.P. Coyne Convoy 14:25 15:45 This convoy of 16-18 ships was escorted without incident from Needles area to Portland.
19-Nov-42 P.6094 F/O J.P. Coyne Roadstead 40 Whirlwinds Antiflak 11:20 12:15 This was the first all-Whirlwind Roadstead Operation. 4 “B” Flight Whirli-bombers were escorted by 4 “A” Flight Whirlwinds antiflak. No incident.
26-Nov-42 P.7052 F/O J.P. Coyne Rhubarb 10:25 11:35 Pilots did not reach their objective, the railway N. of La Haye du Puits, owing to lack of cloud cover. F/O Coyne shot up a pill-box and bombed the harbour installations at Diellette. P/O Samant bombed camouflaged huts 7 miles S.E. of Piereville. Bombing results not seen.
30-Nov-42 P.7105 F/O J.P. Coyne Diversion from Practice 14:30 15:30 This section airborne North of base on cine camera gun dogfighting was diverted to chase a bandit. They were recalled from 20 miles South of Swanage.
14-Dec-42 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne Anti-Rhubarb Patrol 15:00 16:25 Pilots flew, or were vectored, five or six times between Portland and St. Aldhelms Head. Finally vectored to 20 miles North of Barfleur. Returning from there, they met 2 F.W.190s and had a dogfight from zero to 4000 feet
26-Feb-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne 10 Group Circus 16 16:00 17:00 Attack on Maupertus. Landfall made at Cherbourg. Hits were observed on aerodrome, dispersals and buildings.
27-Feb-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne Diversion to 10 Group Ramrod 13:30 14:30 Attack on Maupertus. Landfall made at Pointe du Barfleur. Hits were again observed on aerodrome, dispersals and buildings.
28-Feb-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne 10 Group Circus 17 14:40 15:40 Attack on Maupertus. The veteran dive-bombers of “A” Flight went in for the third time.
14-Mar-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne 10 Group Circus 18 16:22 17:30 Attack on Maupertus. They dive-bombed 15000 – 8000 ft. and saw 8 bursts on centre of the airfield, on the S.W. perimeter and in the S.E. dispersal area. Moderate flak.
19-Mar-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne 10 Group Roadstead 52 18:10 19:10 The large convoy which had been reported South of Guernsey could not be located in thick black haze in the Channel Island area.
26-Mar-43 P.7108 F/O J.P. Coyne Rhubarb Operation 10:45 12:10 Making landfall at LANGRUNE/S/M they scored cannon strikes on a goods loco there (Cat II) then bombed Ouistreham lock gates
06-Apr-43 P.7090 F/O J.P. Coyne 10 Group Circus 20 18:27 20:12 These Whirlibombers were intended to form a second bombing wave to the Typhoon bombers which had bombed Caen/Caupiquet aerodrome an hour before. However they found 9/10 cloud at Ouistreham at 8000 feet and the operation was abandoned.
09-Apr-43 P.7094 F/O J.P. Coyne 10 Group Roadstead 55 12:50 14:30 Swept the Sept Iles – Ile de Batz area for shipping reported there, as often, ship-like rocks were found.
13-Apr-43 P.6879 F/O J.P. Coyne Roadstead from Exeter 12:45 14:00 A 3,000 ton M/V escorted by “E” Boats had been reported off BREHAT, but this sweeping operation failed to locate them.
13-Apr-43 P.6979 F/O J.P. Coyne 10 Group Circus 22 17:30 19:00 Brest/Guipavas aerodrome was successfully divebombed with 20 x 250lb bombs.
15-Apr-43 P.6979 F/O J.P. Coyne 10 Group Roadstead 58 12:10 13:20 Searched Guernsey – Jersey area at zero feet in good visibility. The ships which had been reported there seemed evarescent
16-Apr-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne Escorted Armed Dusk Ship Recco 20:40 22:10 Dusk escorted armed recco in Channel Islands area.
17-Apr-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne Night Armed Shipping Reccos and Rhubarbs 22:56 00:25 He searched for trains Bayeux – Airel, meeting intense flak at Airel, then disintergrated the line near Carentan.
18-Apr-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne Escorted Armed Dusk Recco 20:20 21:25 Reccod the Channel Islands area at zero feet in good visibility, but found no shipping there.
19-Apr-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne Night Roadstead 01:55 03:15 difficult and unfruitful
20-Apr-43 P.7108 F/O J.P. Coyne Night Armed Recco 23:05 00:25 He found a small convoy of 2 Dutch Coasters a small M/V and 2 Motor barges, steaming N.E. from Guernsey. He bombed the small M/V and doesn't think he missed. Light flak followed.
06-May-43 P.7057 F/O J.P. Coyne Roadstead 65 17:15 18:10 Attack on tanker with 5 small escort vessels reported W.N.W. of Alderney. The Casquets were indeed found in this position.
14-May-43 P.6979 F/O J.P. Coyne Roadstead 67 21:00 21:45 Attack on two destroyers alongside the Quai Maritime alternatively a medium M/V in the Basin Napoleon in Cherbourg docks
15-May-43 P.7074 F/O J.P. Coyne Night Recco 23:55 01:25 He reccod the Channel Is; area and had an irritating chase after E Boats which eluded his bombing run.
16-May-43 P.7013 F/O J.P. Coyne Escorted Armed Recco     Escorted armed recco recalled because of a failure of R/T reception
16-May-43 P.7110 F/Lt J.P. Coyne Ship Recco     Search for two destroyers and a medium M/V suspected in the Channel Islands area. 7 miles west of Casquets our formation which was in loose line abreast at zero feet was attacked by two F.W.190's. Both damaged.
16-May-43 P.7008 F/Lt J.P. Coyne Night Recco 23:52 01:10 Uneventful night recco of Channel Is: area
19-May-43 P.6974 F/Lt J.P. Coyne Roadstead     Repetition of previous days uneventful search for minesweepers Channel Islands – Brehat
22-May-43 P.7007 F/Lt J.P. Coyne Night Roadstead 2 00:25 01:50 Attack on convoy steaming from Cap de la Hague towards Cherbourg.
23-May-43 P.6974 F/Lt J.P. Coyne Roadstead 70 07:45 09:00 Attack on convoy nearing Guernsey from C de la Hague
29-May-43 P.6979 F/Lt J.P. Coyne Roadstead 71 14:10 15:15 The 15 Ship Convoy reported off Barfleur was found without much enthusiasm to be the French Fishing Fleet.
30-May-43 P.6974 F/Lt J.P. Coyne Ship Recco 18:35 19:50 Recco of Jersey area
13-Jul-43 P.6974 F/Lt J.P. Coyne DFC Shipping Recco 16:00 17:15 The area searched comprised the Channel Island area and as far as the Ile Brehat.
20-Jul-43 P.7111 F/Lt J.P. Coyne DFC Shipping Recco 10:55 12:10 Armed escorted shipping recco of Channel Islands area
03-Aug-43 P.6974 F/Lt J.P. Coyne DFC Shipping Recco 11:25 12:35 Channel Islands shipping lanes were thoroughly searched from a height of 20-100 feet.
03-Aug-43 P.6974 F/Lt J.P. Coyne DFC 10 Group Circus 19:57 21:15 These 8 Whirlibombers divebombed Brest Guipavas aerodrome
 See also the Summary Jun-Jul 42 tab