Raymond Atkin
In 1939, Raymond Atkin was a girder painter improver.
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He was the son of Charles and Elsie Atkin and the brother of Charles W and Ivy Atkin. In 1939, they lived at 'Hawthornes', Ashfield Avenue, Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.
Lancaster II DS846 took off 1622 16 Dec 1943 from Linton-on-Ouse. while cruising at 19000 feet attacked by a night-fighter from below and astern (Schrage Musicke).
6 fatalities:
Atkin (F/E) + P/O Lewis Percival Archinald (P), P/O Harold James Hurley (A/G), P/O Joseph Leonadis Roger Roland Lachance (N), P/O Norman Byng Morrison (W/O) and W/O1 Jack Dunbar Wilson (A/G).
1 POW:
John Lome Wilson (A/B)
The target was Berlin with 483 Lancasters and 10 Mosquitoes dispatched but Atkin's aircraft was eveidently shot down outbound near Hannover.
16th December 1943 became known in the RAF as 'Black Thursday' because 148 men were killed landing at UK airfields in thick cloud/fog.
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