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Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
Time: | 04:20 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 4./NJG 5 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 720075 |
MSN: | C9+AM |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Mötzlich (outskirts), Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Parchim airfield, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie. On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Sachsen.
The aircraft was severely damaged by Flak. The crew abandoned the aircraft with injuries, the Bordfunker did not survive.
(FF) Hauptmann Ernst Zechlin - bailed out, injured
(Bf) Unteroffizier Albert Evens - bailed out, killed
(Bs) Obergefreiter Bernhard Szcepaniak - bailed out, slightly injured
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
NVM (NJG5_II_016, NJG5_II_017)
Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-Dec-2019 14:03 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
26-Mar-2020 18:53 |
DG333 |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |