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Date: | Tuesday 16 January 1945 |
Time: | 23:10 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 10./NJG 5 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 110501 |
MSN: | C9+EF |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Leipzig-Schkeuditz airfield, Sachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (base) |
Destination airport: | Feindflug - operational sortie |
Narrative:The aircraft was shot down in two attacks by 141 Squadron Mosquito HR215 (from RAF West Raynham) to spiral down burning furiously near Schkeuditz airfield, two of the crew perishing:
(FF) Oblt. Teufert, Karl / killed
(Bf) Fhjfw. Gericke, Heinz-Georg / parachute jump, slightly wounded
(Bs) Uffz. Bogner, Kurt / killed
Sources:
RL 2 III/1172 (s.20); NVM (NJG5_IV_047); Balss, PV; VDK
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Germany%20[1937%20Borders].pdf http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/141_wwII.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Jul-2022 07:56 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
05-Jul-2022 07:57 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Destination airport] |
05-Jul-2022 07:58 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |