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Date: | Sunday 25 July 1943 |
Time: | afternoon |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 |
Owner/operator: | 7./JG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 15368 |
MSN: | weisse 13 + I |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Helgoland-Düne landing ground (Notlandeplatz); Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Leeuwarden airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie. On this afternoon, the USAAF raided Hamburg, Kiel and Rostock with 286 Fortresses and Liberators.
The aircraft was damaged in combat with B-17 Fortresses, Unteroffizier Hans Fordemann performing a belly-landing.
He was wounded and the damage was assessed as 50%.
Sources:
GQM (#11-19); Prien/Rodeike, JG 1/11, page 604
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Germany%20[1937%20Borders].pdf Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
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