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Date: | Wednesday 19 August 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Dornier Do 217 E-4 |
Owner/operator: | Stab I./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 5503 |
MSN: | U5+BB, grüne B |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | English Channel off Le Tréport, Seine-Maritime département -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Gilze-Rijen airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie to Dieppe in France, against Operation Jubilee.
The aircraft failed to return due to aerial combat with 416 Squadron RCAF Spitfires. The pilot performed an emergency-landing. The pilot and Beobachter (observer) did not survive.
Sources:
GQM (#6-10); GQM (28.08.42 Ber. "m"); Balke, KG2, II, page 439; VDK
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