ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49779
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| Date: | Friday 6 October 1944 |
| Time: | 21:22 LT |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju 88 G-1 |
| Owner/operator: | 10./NJG 3 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 710639 |
| MSN: | D5+EV |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | woods along the Duerswâldmer Wei, Bakkeveen, Friesland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Westerland/Sylt airfield, Germany |
Feindflug (operational sortie) against the RAF Bomber Command Bremen (Germany) raid.
The aircraft was intercepted by Serrate Mosquito NT234 of 141 Squadron flown by F/Lt. A.C. Callacher.
After a radar and visual chase of some 15 minutes, the Junkers was shot up and crashed into a pine wood approximately 200 metres north of the Duerswâldmer Wei road at Bakkeveen.
All four crew members had managed to evacuate the aircraft by parachute, though one suffered a parachute failure:
Flugzeugführer / Oblt. W. Briegleb / wounded
Beobachter / Uffz. Brandt / wounded
Bordfunker / Fw. P. Kowalewski / Ysselsteyn cemetery (Limburg); initially buried Leeuwarden
Bordschütze / Uffz. W. Braunlich / wounded
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4488&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
Google Maps
https://www.bakkeveen.nl/historie/nachtjager-brandend/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 27-Mar-2021 14:53 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Mar-2021 19:08 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |
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