ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 239882
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Date: | Tuesday 7 September 1943 |
Time: | 00:45 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 78 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JD454 |
MSN: | EY-E |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 7 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | München-Solln, Bayern -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Breighton, East Riding of Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:02 hrs local time for an operation against München.
Over the target, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Günther Stege of the 8./NJG 3, who was flying a Messerschmitt Bf 110G from Lüneburg airfield in Niedersachsen.
Those who did not survive rest in the Durnbach War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JD454 Google Maps
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Nachtjagdgeschwader/NJG3.htm
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Aug-2020 17:52 |
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12-Aug-2020 17:53 |
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