ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231053
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Date: | Thursday 20 January 1944 |
Time: | 19:10 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LL197 |
MSN: | AL-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | woods near Zeetze, Amt Neuhaus, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Leeming, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 16:12 hrs for an operation to Berlin.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberfeldwebel Hans Berschwinger of the 4./NJG 2 (based at Deelen airfield in the Netherlands), who was flying a Ju 88 C-6.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LL197 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
25 May 1944 |
HX352 |
429 (Bison) Sqn RCAF |
6 |
Leopoldsbure area, Limburg |
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Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Dec-2019 20:58 |
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