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Date: | Monday 24 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:47 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 7./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 441083 |
MSN: | G9+OR |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rijperkerk (Ryptsjerk), Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Leeuwarden airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided the naval bases at Kiel in Germany.
Upon approach to Leeuwarden, the aircraft was shot down by F/Lt. A.C. Musgrove of 29 Squadron RAF, who was flying a Mosquito XIII from RAF Hunsdon in Hertfordshire, England.
Flugzeugführer Hptm. S. Jandrey / Ysselsteyn cemetery; grave AT-11-270 / initially buried Leeuwarden
Bordfunker Uffz. J. Stahl / Ysselsteyn cemetery; grave AT-11-263 / initially buried Leeuwarden
Bordschütze Uffz. A. Herger / slightly injured
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3903&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Rickard, J (16 September 2008), No. 29 Squadron (RAF): Second World War,
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/35_wwII.html Google Maps
NVM (NJG1_III_078); Balss, Personalverluste
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
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23-Oct-2020 08:56 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
23-Oct-2020 08:56 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source] |
27-Apr-2021 11:06 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
27-Apr-2021 11:11 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |