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Date: | Sunday 28 January 1940 |
Time: | |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 |
Owner/operator: | 2./JG 21 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 3491 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Münster-Handorf airfield, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Münster-Handorf airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Uffz. Willi Strassfeld of 2./JG 21 was killed when his Bf 109 E-1 WNr 3491 crashed and burned on take-off from Münster-Handorf airfield. The cause of the accident was unknown.
Sources:
“The Battle of France Then and Now”, by Peter D. Cornwell. ISBN 9-781870-067652
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugplatz_M%C3%BCnster-Handorf https://www.google.de/maps/search/51.995278,7.731944/@51.995278,7.731944,1112m/data=!4m2!2m1!4b1?dg=dbrw&newdg=1
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Jan-2017 21:47 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
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24-Dec-2019 16:54 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |