ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 213608
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Date: | Monday 26 July 1943 |
Time: | 01:20 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BK686 |
MSN: | BU-C |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Essen-Borbeck, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Chedburgh |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Claimed shot down by two Luftwaffe pilots (Unteroffizier Wolfgang Knobloch and Feldwebel Horst Heinstein, both of the 5./JG Herrmann, flying an Fw 190 A-6 from Rheine airfield) and by heavy Flak. None of these claims have been confirmed by the Luftwaffe.
Takeoff time: 22:45
Crew: http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BK686
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BK686 http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Jagdgeschwader/Inhalt.htm
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
20 June 1942 |
N3762 |
214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF |
4 |
near the Driehoekweg, Stegeren, Overijssel |
|
w/o |
27 July 1942 |
W7560 |
214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF |
0 |
Westerdeichstrich, Schleswig-Holstein |
|
w/o |
3 March 1943 |
EF329 |
214 (Federated Malay States) Sqn RAF |
6 |
Leeste, Weyhe, Niedersachsen |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Jul-2018 12:53 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
04-Oct-2018 14:27 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
22-Jan-2019 13:33 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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