Accident Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 5458,
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Date:Thursday 16 December 1943
Time:18:25 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic me11 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4
Owner/operator:7./NJG 3 Luftwaffe
Registration: 5458
MSN: D5+GR
Fatalities:Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage: Aircraft missing
Location:off the German coast -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Nordholz airfield, Niedersachsen (base)
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided Berlin.

The aircraft was hit by 'friendly' Flak and crashed at an unknown location.

(FF) Hauptmann Alfred Heldt - missing in action
(Bf) Unteroffizier Heinz Reinhold - killed
(Bw) Oberfeldwebel Herbert Hübner - killed

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
GQM (#12-24); NVM (NJG3_III_023)
Google Maps
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Nachtjagdgeschwader/NJG3.htm

Revision history:

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