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Date: | Sunday 3 October 1943 |
Time: | 22:18 |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 9./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 5339 |
MSN: | G9+AT |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | north of Harpenfeld, Bad Essen, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Twente airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided Kassel.
The aircraft was damaged in return fire from an RAF heavy bomber which hit the engine(s). The crew escaped by parachute, one didn't survive:
Flugzeugführer Fritz Lau - bailed out, slightly injured / Staffelkapitän 9./NJG 1
Bordfunker: - bailed out
Bordwart: Obergefreiter Erwin Weber - KIA
Damage: 100%
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
GQM (#11-22); NVM (NJG1_III_041, NJG1_III_042); Balss, Personalverluste
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History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
31-Oct-2018 20:56 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
24-Dec-2019 19:35 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
18-Nov-2020 19:15 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Location, Source, Narrative] |