ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50599
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Date: | Sunday 9 April 1944 |
Time: | 16:45 LT |
Type: | North American P-51B-10-NA Mustang |
Owner/operator: | 363th FGp /381th FSqn USAAF |
Registration: | 42-106466 |
MSN: | B3- |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | North Sea near Ameland, Friesland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Staplehurst, Kent |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft crashed under unknown circumstances. The pilot, 2nd Lt. W.W. Steinke, is missing in action and is commemorated on the Margraten Walls of the Missing.
The Mustang was flying fighter escort for the USAAF operation against Tutow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3577&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= http://www.americanairmuseum.com/aircraft/2192 http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/1136 Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
06-Apr-2019 14:46 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
12-Jun-2020 15:43 |
Digger |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
15-Jun-2022 04:17 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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