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Date: | Saturday 21 June 1941 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 C-2 |
Owner/operator: | 2./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 756 |
MSN: | R4+*K |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Bergen Airfield, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Gilze-Rijen airfield (NL) |
Destination airport: | Bergen airfield (NL) |
Narrative:The aircraft had taken off for a Feindflug (operational sortie) over England, but was hit by return fire from an RAF bomber. The pilot, Oberfeldwebel Hermann Jung, succesfully performed an emergency-landing with a 500 kg bomb on board.
The damage was assessed at 20%.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=R0116&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd'
GQM (#3-5, 3360/41, 24.6.41, 2); Balss, MV, s.26; Rökker, I./NJG 2, s.216; Intruders Over Britain, s.184; Foreman, The Turning Point, II, s.353
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
24 June 1941 |
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2./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
0 |
North Sea 50 km NW of Texel, Noord-Holland |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
19-Jun-2019 13:13 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
18-Mar-2020 09:46 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
15-Jun-2022 09:53 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |