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Date: | Wednesday 5 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:17 |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 49 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | PB195 |
MSN: | EA-P |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Plantognon, Romescamps, Oise 60 -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Fiskerton |
Destination airport: | St Leu-d’ Esserent V1 Site |
Narrative:4/5 July, 1944; ST-LEU-D'ESSERENT (CRIEL): On the previous two nights operations had been cancelled during the early evening, but on Tuesday 4th,July 1944, 5 Group did manage to dispatch 231 aircraft against the underground flying-bomb store at St-Leu-D'Esserent. Hit by Schw Falk Battery z.b.V. 9998. Crashed South East of Gourchelles (SD 2) at 01:17.
Of the 17 crews that had departed Fiskerton, one failed to return. Sadly, F/O Harold Dod and crew flying a brand-new aircraft, were all killed over France: They are all buried at Romescamp Churchyard Oise France.
Crew on their 17th operation, and all are buried together in Romescamp Cemetery near Oise.
Crew:-
Pilot : Flying Officer Harold Frederick Dod RAFVR 173926 (NCO:1330987) [Killed] 05 July 1944. Romescamps Churchyard, France Grave 1. Husband of F. S. Dod of Southall Middlesex. CWGC Casualty link : https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2234602 : Gazetted Commission Date : 09 May 1944
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Victor Albert Keen RAFVR 909313 [Killed] 05 July 1944. Romescamps Churchyard, France Collective Grave 5-7. Son of Harry William and Margret Dodds Keen. CWGC Casualty link : https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2234605. Age:25
Navigator : Flight Sergeant Norman Gordon RAFVR 914858 [Killed] 05 July 1944. Romescamps Churchyard, France Grave 4. Son of Edward and Cherrie Gordon of Edgware Middlesex. Husband of Barbara Lambert Gordon of Harrogate Yorkshire. CWGC Casualty link : https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2234603. Age:25
Bomb Aimer : Flight Sergeant James Lawford Cox RAFVR 1602435 [Killed] 05 July 1944. Romescamps Churchyard, France Grave 3. Son of James Alexander and Lilian May Cox of Romford Essex. CWGC Casualty link : https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2234601. Age:28
Wireless Operator / Air Gunner : Sergeant Leon Horner RAFVR 1321534 [Killed] 05 July 1944. Romescamps Churchyard, France Collective Grave 5-7. Son of Leon Horner and of Ada Horner of East Ham Essex. CWGC Casualty link : https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2234604
Mid-Upper Gunner : Sergeant Bruce Robert Scott RAFVR 1324631 [Killed] 05 July 1944. Romescamps Churchyard, France Collective Grave 5-7. Son of Alexander and Anna Scott of North End Portsmouth. CWGC Casualty link : https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2234606
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer James Robert Truscott RCAF J/87770 [Killed] 05 July 1944. Romescamps Churchyard, France Grave 2. Son of James Stuart Truscott and Ivy Gladys Truscott of Windsor Ontario Canada. CWGC Casualty link : https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2234607. Age:20
Sources:
1. Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
2.
http://www.49squadron.co.uk/personnel_index/detail/Dod_HF 3. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 315
4.
https://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1053 5. Google Maps
6.Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 Part 3 - Theo Boiten
CWGC
6. Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
7. Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Aug-2013 17:30 |
JINX |
Added |
30-Dec-2014 23:27 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
30-Dec-2014 23:57 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Departure airport] |
06-Jun-2015 10:03 |
Cliford |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
21-Jun-2016 16:25 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
30-Oct-2018 04:54 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Destination airport, Operator] |
20-May-2021 18:19 |
Anon. |
Updated [Time, Destination airport, Narrative] |
04-Jun-2021 17:06 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source] |
23-Jan-2024 09:17 |
Rob Davis |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |