ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 175490
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| Date: | Saturday 8 July 1944 |
| Time: | 00:53 LT |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
| Owner/operator: | 2./NJG 5 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 110028 |
| MSN: | C9+HK |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | 6 km west of Compiègne, Oise 60 -
 France
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Saint-Dizier airfield (takeoff between 00:02-20 hrs) |
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, 208 Lancasters and 13 Mosquitoes were dispatched to bomb the underground V-1 flying bomb store at St. Leu d’ Esserent (30 km north of Paris), a second force of 123 Lancasters and five Mosquitoes being briefed to visit the railway centre of Vaires (18 km east of Paris).
The aircraft fell foul of a Mosquito of 239 Squadron RAF operating from RAF West Raynham.
Flugzeugführer / Leutnant Joachim Hanss / killed
Bordfunker / Uffz. Wolfgang Wehrhahn / bailed out, wounded
Bordwart / Fw. Kurt Stein / killed
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part three
NVM (NJG5_I_051, NJG5_I_052); absa39-45.asso.fr
Bing Maps
http://www.spurensuche-owl.de/front_content.php?idart=133
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-Apr-2015 12:47 | gerard57 | Added |
| 23-Oct-2020 11:35 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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