ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 220411
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| Date: | Friday 31 December 1943 |
| Time: | 11:20 |
| Type: |  Focke-Wulf Fw 190G-3 |
| Owner/operator: | 1./SAGr. 128 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Brest-Lanveoc airfield, Finistere -
 France
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Brest-Lanveoc |
On 31 December 1943, during VIII Bomber Command Mission 171, various targets in France were hit:
1. 200 of 236 B-17's and 57 of 60 B-24's hit the Bordeaux-Merignac, Cognac-Chateaubernard and Landes Bussac Airfields at 1211-1315 hours; they claimed 17-13-27 Luftwaffe aircraft; 18 B-17's and 5 B-24's were lost, 8 B-17's and 2 B-24's were damaged beyond repair and 103 B-17's and 5 B-24's were damaged; casualties were 9 KIA, 36 WIA and 231 MIA.
2. 57 B-17's were dispatched to hit a blockade running ship at Gironde but cannot find the target; 1 B-17 was damaged beyond repair and 3 damaged; casualties were 2 KIA and 5 WIA.
3. 87 of 94 B-24's hit the St Jean D'Angely Airfield at 1211-1235 hours; they claimed 9-1-1 Luftwaffe aircraft; 1 B-24 was lost, 3 were damaged beyond repair and 5 damaged; casualties were 10 MIA.
4. 120 of 125 B-17's hit the industrial areas at Paris-Ivry and Bois-Colombes at 1207-1227 hours; 1 B-17 was lost, 1 damaged beyond repair and 49 damaged; casualties were 2 WIA and 10 MIA.
These missions were escorted by 74 P-38's, 441 P-47's and 33 Ninth Air Force P-51's; they claimed 9-1-1 Luftwaffe aircraft; 1 P-38, 2 P-47's and 1 P-51 were lost; 1 P-38 and 6 P-47's were damaged beyond repair and 1 P-38 was damaged; casualties were 3 WIA and 2 MIA.
On the German side, fighters from JG 2, JG 26, 1./SAGr. 128, Jagdgruppe Ost and Jagdgruppe West opposed the raids and made a total of 29 claims (28 bombers, including two for final destruction, and 1 P-47) while losing 13 fighters destroyed in battle and 7 more in accidents. 15 more bombers were claimed shot down by Flak. Luftwaffe losses on the ground were also heavy: Jagdgruppe Ost lost 17 aircraft destroyed and 21 damaged under bombs, while III./KG 40 lost 6 aircraft destroyed and 3 damaged. At Tours, the Verbandsführerschule des General der Kampfflieger lost 5 aircraft destroyed or damaged.
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Four Fw 190s of 1./SAGr. 128 (aka Jagdkommando Brest) scrambled at 1120 hrs from Brest-Lanveoc to intercept American heavy bombers but their mission was ill-fated, since one pilot, 23-year old Lt. Karl Albers, crashed immediately after take off and was killed. His Fw 190 G-3 (WNr unknown) was totally destroyed. The other three pilots didn’t make contact with the US bombers.
Sources:
http://www.thescale.info/news/publish/luftwaffe-fw190-10ZG1.shtml
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=18036
http://paul.rutgers.edu/~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/html/Dec.43.html
http://www.ahs.no/ref_db/lw_summ_loss_acft_overview.asp?PAGE=1
Luftwaffe claim lists by Tony Wood and Jim Perry (http://don-caldwell.we.bs/jg26/claims/tonywood.htm)
http://www.ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20France.pdf
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_d%27a%C3%A9ronautique_navale_de_Lanv%C3%A9oc-Poulmic
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_d%27a%C3%A9ronautique_navale_de_Lanv%C3%A9oc-Poulmic#/maplink/0
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Jan-2019 20:02 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
| 31-Dec-2019 10:42 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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