ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 243768
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| Date: | Monday 29 May 1944 |
| Time: | 03:40 |
| Type: | Messerschmitt Me 410 A-1/U2 |
| Owner/operator: | 6./KG 51 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 420006 |
| MSN: | 9K+KP |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea off Cromer, Norfolk, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | airfield in the Netherlands (takeoff between 01:39-59 hrs) |
Feindflug (operational sortie) - intruder patrol in the area of The Wash-Norwich-Ipswich-Cambridge.
The aircraft fell foul of a 25 Squadron Mosquito operating from RAF Coltishall in Norfolk.
Feldwebel Ernst Dietrich & Unteroffizier Walter Schacknies are both missing in action.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/25_wwII.html
Blitz T&N, III, page 370; Liste-RT
Google Maps
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 09-Oct-2020 12:54 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 09-Oct-2020 12:54 | TigerTimon | Updated [Departure airport] |
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