Incident Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7 2668,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 206856
 
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Date:Tuesday 2 December 1941
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic ME09 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7
Owner/operator:4./JS 3 Luftwaffe
Registration: 2668
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Damtjonna in Surnadal area, 50km ESE Kristiansund -   Norway
Phase: En route
Nature:Unknown
Departure airport:
Destination airport:
Narrative:
At least 3 aircraft of the Einsatzstaffel 4./Jagdschule 3 (also called Jagdgruppe Drontheim) were unable to find their way back to their base of Orlandet in a snow storm and ran out of fuel. Two aircraft were lost but all pilots survived.

Uffz Heinz Niehaus bailed out from his Bf 109 E-7 WNr 2668 Weisse 6 and landed safely. His fighter crashed into a bog at Damtjønna in Surnadal area, 50km ESE Kristiansund. Uffz Niehaus walked down to Heggset.

Uffz Heinrich Niehaus later became the first casualty of the newly formed IV./JG 5. He crashed and got killed on a training flight near Elvenes on 7 July 1942. He is buried at Narvik Cemetery.

Sources:

http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/surnadal.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20120320130812/http://www.rafandluftwaffe.info/luftwaffe1.html (no more online)
http://www.luftwaffe.no/SIG/Losses/tap412.html (no more online)
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damtj%C3%B8nna
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=62.800000&lon=9.889000&z=11&m=b

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
28-Feb-2018 14:56 Laurent Rizzotti Added
14-Dec-2019 21:33 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]

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