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Date: | Sunday 22 August 1943 |
Time: | 23:59 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Me 410 A-1 |
Owner/operator: | 14./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 0228 |
MSN: | U5 + EE |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea 25 miles NE of Foreness Point, NE of Margate, Kent, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Cambrai-Épinoy airfield (F) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie. The aircraft had taken off for an intruder operation over Eastern England.
Pilot: Unteroffizier. Johann Oertel. 57359/278. Missing.
Born 27.10.1919 in Weiden.
Radio/Op: Feldwebel. Martin Kuefner. 57359/339. Missing.
Born 04.07.1917 in Bindlach Krs. Bayreuth.
REASON FOR LOSS:
This aircraft was intercepted and shot down by F/L C. Kirkland and P/O R. C. Raspin in a Mosquito of No.29 Squadron.
Sources:
1.Luftwaffe losses aircrewremembrancesociety3.com
2.http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Kampfgeschwader/KG2.htm
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Nov-2019 21:26 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
24-Mar-2020 15:18 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Source, Operator] |