Samuel Stephen Atkin
He was a wireless storekeeper in 1939.
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He was the son of George and Catherine Atkin and the brother of William and George Atkin, of Dronfield, Derbyshire.
Atkin was the pilot of Lancaster I HK547 which took off 2228 19 May 1944 from witchford to bomb the railway junction. Crashed near Le Mans.
No survivors. Fatalities:
Atkin +
Reginald Frederick Arthur Giles, John Victor Hayward, Rhys Webb Joes, Keneth Richard Mather, Leonard Eugene Meheden, Ivor Collins Plumb and Joseph Rafferty.
It is not clear what befell this aircraft. There's no mention of a mid-air collision in the Squadron Operations Record Book, but it's not a piece of evidence in itself. At night a mid-air collision could be confused with a direct Flak hit by other crews. As there was no survivor, it's also difficult to get details from one of the involved crew members.
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