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Date: | Thursday 2 September 1943 |
Time: | |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 |
Owner/operator: | 11./JG 3 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 18620 |
MSN: | gelbe W + ~ |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | Missing - Mediterranean Sea 100 km S of Capri island -
Italy
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Foggia - San Severo airfield (I) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft went missing in aerial combat with P-38 Lightnings.
The pilot, Feldwebel Friedrich Porth, is missing in action, too.
Feindflug (operational sortie). In turn, four pilots of the 11. Staffel made five P-38 claims. They were Leutnant Hermann Schmied, Oberleutnant Gustav Frielinghaus, Unteroffizier Egon Schulz and Feldwebel Rasso Förg.
Sources:
1.LW Losses by Michael Balss
2.LW Claims by Michael Balss
3.http://www.aircrewremembered.com/KrackerDatabase/?q=18620
4.Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
23-Mar-2019 11:15 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
26-Mar-2019 13:14 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
24-Mar-2020 16:08 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Operator] |
18-Apr-2022 04:10 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |