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Date: | Sunday 19 April 1942 |
Time: | 17:33 LT |
Type: | Heinkel He 111 H-6 |
Owner/operator: | 9./KG 27 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 4937 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kherson/West airfield -
Ukraine
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Kherson/West airfield |
Destination airport: | Feindflug - operational sortie |
Narrative:Due to engine failure on takeoff, the aircraft hit a lorry. The bombs exploded, ending the lives of all four crewmen:
(FF) Oberleutnant Horeis, Walter
(B) Feldwebel Fleischmann, Gerhard
(Bf) Feldwebel Bock, Gerhard
(Bs) Unteroffizier Groß, Werner
Sources:
GQM (#5-8); Waiss, KG27, IV, page 51
WASt-Gräberkartei
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Russia%20and%20Ukraine.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kherson_Oblast Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-Apr-2022 17:43 |
TigerTimon |
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