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Date: | Thursday 23 September 1943 |
Time: | 22:50 |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 6./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 4890 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hochstetten-Dhaun, Rheinland-Pfalz -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield, Belgium |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Abgeschossen (brennend) im Luftkampf, Besatzung FSA (shot down (burning) in aerial combat, crew bailed out). Leutnant Hager was hit by return fire from a Halifax. Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Mannheim, Germany.
Damage: 100%
Crew:
Flugzeugführer: Leutnant Johannes Hager - wounded
Bordfunker: Unteroffizier Hubert von Bergen - wounded
Both men were taken to a hospital at Bad Kreuznach (Rheinland-Pfalz).
Sources:
Deutsche Luftwaffe Verluste nach Flugzeugtypen Teil 3 by Michael Balss
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
Engau, Nachtjäger, page 216
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Oct-2018 18:32 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
24-Dec-2019 19:40 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
02-Jul-2021 18:49 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |