ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50911
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Date: | Tuesday 15 February 1944 |
Time: | 22:00 |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 C-6 |
Owner/operator: | 7./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 720321 |
MSN: | R4+BR |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lonnekerbrug, Overijssel -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Gilze-Rijen airfield (NL) |
Destination airport: | Twente airfield (NL) |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided Berlin.
The pilot was blinded by the searchlights at the airfield and the aircraft crashed into shrubbery of the Lonnekerberg.
The three crew members were initially buried at Enschede:
Crew:
Flugzeugführer Uffz. H. Bergeest / Ysselsteyn cemetery; grave Q-10-237
Beobachter Ogfr. H. Bühring / Ysselsteyn cemetery; grave Q-10-238
Bordschütze Gfr. A. Artmann / Ysselsteyn cemetery; grave Q-10-239
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3418&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd' for location
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
26-Aug-2012 01:25 |
Anon. |
Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase] |
23-Dec-2019 16:34 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
23-Dec-2019 16:34 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
25-Mar-2020 10:05 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
10-Jun-2022 15:15 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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