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Date: | Monday 18 October 1943 |
Time: | 20:15 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | Stab IV./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 740043 |
MSN: | G9+ME |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Neubruchhausen, Bassum, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Leeuwarden airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided Hannover in Niedersachsen.
The aircraft suffered an engine fire. The pilot, Hauptmann Ernst Metz, was injured. The damage was assessed as 100%.
Sources:
GQM (#11-22); Balss, Personalverluste
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
Google Maps
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