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Date: | Tuesday 4 January 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-3 |
Owner/operator: | 12./JG 5 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 132207 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
Location: | Frøysjøen fjord -
Norway
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:On 4 January 1944 Uffz. Josef Brenner of 12./JG 5 was killed when his Fw 190 A-3 Wnr 132207 crashed for an unknow reason in the Frøysjøen fjord south of Bremanger, 30 km north of Florø, during a convoy escort flight. His Rottenführer, Fw Simme, did not see anything, only that he was gone.
Sources:
“Jagdgeschwader 5 Eismeerjäger: Eine Chronik aus Dokumenten U. Berichten: 1941-1945“, by Werner Girbig. ISBN 3-87943-365-8
http://web.archive.org/web/20120320130812/http://www.rafandluftwaffe.info/luftwaffe1.html http://www.luftwaffe.no/SIG/Losses/tap43.html [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.luftwaffe.be/miajg5.html]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremanger http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=61.750000&lon=4.950000&z=10 (approximate location)
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Jan-2017 14:01 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Added |
05-Jan-2017 05:06 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
10-Mar-2020 15:19 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |