ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 179318
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Date: | Monday 8 May 1944 |
Time: | 12:30 LT |
Type: | Lockheed P-38J-10-LO Lightning |
Owner/operator: | 364th FGp /384th FSqn USAAF |
Registration: | 42-68070 |
MSN: | 5Y-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Tonnenheide, Rahden, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Honington, UK |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Show down by a Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Bf 109. The pilot ejected safely and was taken prisoner.
The Lightning was flying fighter escort for the USAAF operation against Berlin.
Sources:
http://www.spurensuche-owl.de/front_content.php?idart=201 http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/9039 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
06-Sep-2015 16:01 |
gerard57 |
Added |
06-May-2019 07:51 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
28-Mar-2020 09:31 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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