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Date: | Monday 1 April 1940 |
Time: | |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 |
Owner/operator: | 3./JG 52 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lachen-Speyerdorf airfield, Rheinland-Pfalz -
Germany
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | Lachen-Speyerdorf airfield |
Narrative:Lt. Albert-Heinrich Waller of 3./JG 52 was wounded when his Bf 109 E-1 overturned on landing on Lachen-Speyerdorf airfield and his aircraft was damaged beyond repair (at 60%). The reason of the crash was listed as pilot error. Waller recovered and was finally shot down south of London on 6 September 1940 and captured.
Sources:
http://www.jg52.net/kriegstagebuch/1940/3/ "Die Jagdfliegerverbände der deutschen Luftwaffe 1934 bis 1945: Der "Sitzkrieg" 1.9.1939 bis 9.5.1940", by Jochen Prien, Gerhard Stemmer, Peter Rodeike and Winfried Bock. ISBN 3-923457-59-6
http://www.jg52.net/kriegstagebuch/1940/7/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugplatz_Lachen-Speyerdorf https://www.google.de/maps/search/49.330833,8.205278/@49.330833,8.205278,11120m/data=!4m2!2m1!4b1?dg=dbrw&newdg=1
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Jul-2017 07:33 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Added |
02-Feb-2018 22:29 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
26-Jan-2020 16:53 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |