ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53339
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| Date: | Thursday 26 June 1941 |
| Time: | night |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju 88 C-2 |
| Owner/operator: | 4./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 794 |
| MSN: | R4+GM |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Milano (Milan) -
 Italy
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Gilze-Rijen airfield (NL) |
Over the North Sea near England, the aircraft was hit by return fire from an RAF bomber, in which the pilot, Oberleutnant Paul 'Sepp' Bohn was killed. The two other crew members, Bordfunker Fw. Hans Engmann and Bordmechaniker Uffz. Walter Lindner then flew the aircraft back to the continent and bailed out over France, having thrown out the body of their pilot by parachute, too. The Junkers then flew on auto-pilot to Italy, where it crashed when it ran out of fuel.
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Kiel and Bremen in Germany.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1070B&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Images:
via BA/MA Freiburg
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 24-Jun-2019 04:33 | TigerTimon | Updated [Date, Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 18-Mar-2020 14:57 | DB | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
| 24-Feb-2024 13:18 | TigerTimon | Updated [Other fatalities, Photo] |
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