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Date: | Saturday 22 April 1944 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Messerschmitt Me 410 A-1/U2 |
Owner/operator: | 5./KG 51 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 420314 |
MSN: | 9K+MN |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea -
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Soesterberg airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft had taken off at 21:54 hrs for an intruder sortie over Cambridge in England.
The crew went missing under unknown circumstances. The pilot was Staffelkapitän of the 5. Staffel/KG 51 and a higly experienced Ritterkreuzträger.
(FF) Hauptmann Dietrich Puttfarken / missing in action
(Bf) Oberfeldwebel Willi Lux / missing in action
Sources:
'The Last Blitz' by MacKay & Parry pages 337 & 339
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
11 June 1944 |
20005 |
5./KG 51 Luftwaffe |
2 |
Windaspad at Oudendijk hamlet, Woudrichem, Noord-Brabant |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Apr-2020 20:18 |
TigerTimon |
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