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Date: | Thursday 4 June 1942 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 E-1 |
Owner/operator: | 1./NJG 3 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 3963 |
MSN: | D5+KH |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 2 km southeast of Telbrake, Vechta, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Vechta airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie. On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Bremen in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down in aerial combat. Leutnant Karl-Friedrich Clausnitzer did not survive, his radio operator managed to escape by parachute. The 110 was a total loss (100%).
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
GQM (#6-9); NVM (NJG3_I_013); GQM (10.06.42 Ber. "i" / 10.06.42 Erg. "h")
Google Maps
WASt-Gräberkarte
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
30 June 1942 |
4276 |
3./NJG 3 Luftwaffe |
0 |
Vechta airfield, Niedersachsen |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Apr-2020 13:12 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Feb-2022 11:29 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Source] |