Date:	Saturday 10 June 1944
Time:	00:42 claim
Type:	Avro Lancaster Mk III
Owner/operator:	630 Sqn RAF
Registration:	PB121
MSN:	LE-F
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Location:	Omerville, Val-d'Oise département -   France
Phase:	Combat
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	RAF East Kirby (takeoff at 21:48 hrs)
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Took off from RAF East Kirby to bomb the rail junction. Engaged by a night fighter whose second firing pass left the Lancaster enveloped in flames. Crashed at Omerville (Val d'Oise), a small community 7 km WSW of Magny-en-Vexin. Those who died are are buried in Omerville Communal Cemetery, their graves being alongside those of another 630 Squadron crew destined to be killed on 8 July 1944.
Crew:-
Pilot : Pilot Officer Claud Morley Houghton AFM RAFVR 176435 [Killed] (NCO:1165631 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 27 June, 1944)
Flight Engineer : Sergeant Horace Ison RAFVR 1667376 [Killed]
Navigator : Sergeant John Charles Cameron RAFVR 1323158 [Killed]
Bomb Aimer : Flying Officer Douglas Charles Percy RAF 55075 [PoW] (NCO:567738 Commission Gazetted : Tuesday 13 July, 1943)
Wireless Operator : Sergeant William James Bott RAFVR 1580780 [Killed]
Mid-Upper Gunner : Pilot Officer Russel Edward Dennis RCAF J/92123 [Killed]
Rear Gunner : Pilot Officer William John Barr RCAF J/92196 [Killed]
Claim by Oblt Johannes Werth Stab NJG2 - North West of Paris (TC-TD-UC-UD): 2,700m at 00:42.

Air-Britain Royal Air Force Aircraft PA100-RZ999
http://francecrashes39-45.net/page_fiche_av.php?id=1137
Royal Air Force Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War 1944 Page 269.
(Nachtjagd Combat Archives 1944 Part 3 - Theo Boiten)
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Rob Davis Bomber Command Losses Database

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

22 May 1944	JB672	630 Sqn RAF	7	Wehl - Kilder, Gelderland		w/o
19 July 1944	PB236	630 Sqn RAF	7	Neuvy (Marne)		w/o

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Aug-2013 10:55	JINX	Added
21-Oct-2014 13:18	gerard57	Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]
15-Jun-2016 13:20	Red Dragon	Updated [Cn, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
19-Nov-2018 22:06	Nepa	Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator]
18-Mar-2021 20:52	Anon.	Updated [Source, Narrative]
19-May-2021 18:33	TigerTimon	Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source]
09-Jun-2023 06:35	Rob Davis	Updated [[Time, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source]]