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Date: | Monday 18 December 1944 |
Time: | 04:58 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 6./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 180562 |
MSN: | G9+OP |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Düsseldorf-Stockum - Düsseldorf-Lohausen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Initial climb |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Düsseldorf airfield (G) |
Destination airport: | Feindflug - operational sortie |
Narrative:Took off at 21:30 hrs for a Nachtschlacht operation in support of the von Rundstedt-offensive.
The crew had been briefed to shoot up traffic on the roads between Sittard, Maastricht and Liège.
Immediately after take-off from Düsseldorf, the bombed-up Messerschmitt crashed into a villa in the Klaus-von-Pape-Straße in Lohausen-Stockum, instantly killing the crew and two inhabitants of the house, which burned down completely. This street was renamed after the war.
Flugzeugführer: Unteroffizier Rolf Schütte
Bordfunker: Unteroffizier Oswald Neubauer
Bordschütze: Flieger Herrmann Wilke
Sources:
- NVM (NJG1_II_110, NJG1_II_111); Balss, Personalverluste
- Google Maps
- Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part five
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
29-Oct-2018 18:04 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
02-Jul-2019 16:43 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Date, Time, Cn, Location, Source] |
27-Feb-2020 19:31 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
02-Aug-2021 11:27 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
02-Aug-2021 11:33 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |