ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 206622
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Date: | Friday 26 February 1943 |
Time: | 00:44 |
Type: | Short Stirling Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 90 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | BF410 |
MSN: | WP-E |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Sandweier, Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Ridgewell |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 20:39 hrs local time for an operation against Nürnberg in Bayern.
Shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Hermann Greiner of the III./Nachtjagdschule 1, flying from Echterdingen airfield.
Those who perished rest in the Durnbach War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 Part One by Theo Boiten
http://ww2.dk/air/schule/njs1.htm http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=BF410&qand=&exc1=&exc2=&search_only=&search_type=exact Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
24-Feb-2018 15:39 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
14-Apr-2018 19:34 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
31-Oct-2018 19:54 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Location, Operator] |
17-May-2021 09:23 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Cn, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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