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Date: | Thursday 20 January 1944 |
Time: | 21:40 LT |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 C-6 |
Owner/operator: | 3./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 750999 |
MSN: | R4+EL |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Deelen Airfield, Gelderland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Deelen airfield (NL) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft had taken off for a Feindflug (operational sortie) from Deelen at 17:35 hrs, to engage the 20/21 January Berlin raid.
After suffering battle damage southwest of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein, the pilot, Oberfeldwebel Robert Lüddeke, put the aircraft down in an emergency-landing. The Bordschütze, Unteroffizier Ulrich Hess, was slightly injured.
The damage was assessed at 10%.
Sources:
NVM (NJG2_I_034); Rökker, I./NJG2, s.93, 224
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
17 October 1940 |
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3./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
0 |
Gilze-Rijen Airfield, Noord-Brabant |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
31-Dec-2019 22:25 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
01-Jan-2020 11:30 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Country, Damage, Narrative] |
26-Mar-2020 14:12 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
16-Jun-2022 02:29 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |