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
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

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

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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]