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Date: | Friday 24 September 1943 |
Time: | 00:09 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-4 |
Owner/operator: | 8./NJG 101 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 3259 |
MSN: | DE+MA |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 400 metres east of Plieningen, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Echterdingen airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie). On the evening of the 23rd, RAF Bomber Command raided Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg.
The aircraft was reportedly hit by an enemy intruder aircraft and crashed. Both crew members were killed:
(FF) Uffz. Hermann Diehans
(Bf) Uffz. Karl Schätzlein
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
RL 2 III/776, 157/170; Balss, PV, page 137
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Nachtjagdgeschwader/NJG101.htm Google Maps
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