ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 223933
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| Date: | Friday 31 July 1942 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Dornier Do 217 E-4 |
| Owner/operator: | 7./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 5427 |
| MSN: | U5+IR, weisse I |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea 10 miles north-northwest of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Deelen airfield (NL) |
Takeoff for a Feindflug (operational sortie) to the Vickers & Dunlop factories at Birmingham (West Midlands, England) (30./31.7.1942).
Shot down by night fighter pilot Pilot Officer Ward of the No. 68 Squadron RAF, who was flying a Beaufighter from RAF Coltishall airfield, Norfolk.
Crew:
Flugzeugführer - Leutnant Gustav Dittrich - killed
Beobachter - Feldwebel Heinrich Kleylein - missing in action
Bordfunker - Gefreiter Franz Szelinski - killed
Bordmechaniker - Unteroffizier Kurt Puhl - killed
Sources:
LW Losses by Michael Balss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._68_Squadron_RAF
book Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 12 February 1942 | 5334 | 7./KG 2 Luftwaffe | 4 | Southwood Farm, Exeter, Devon, England | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 13-Apr-2019 14:26 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 13-Apr-2019 16:56 | TigerTimon | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Mar-2020 15:03 | DG333 | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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