ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 227271
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Date: | Saturday 9 September 1944 |
Time: | 17:55 LT |
Type: | Heinkel He 219 A-0 |
Owner/operator: | 2./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 210905 |
MSN: | G9+DK |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hopsten airfield (eastern edge), Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Münster-Handorf airfield, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
Destination airport: | Hopsten airfield (G) |
Narrative:Takeoff at 17:30 hrs for a Verlegungsflug (transfer flight).
Upon landing at Hopsten, the aircraft was shot down by fighter pilot 1st Lieutenant Swift T Benjamin of the 353FG/350FS, who was flying a P-47D Thunderbolt from RAF Raydon, Suffolk, England.
The aircraft was totally destroyed (100%).
Crew:
Flugzeugführer - Oberfeldwebel Heinz Jadatz - killed
Bordfunker - Unteroffizier Alfred Schindler - killed
Bordwart - Unteroffizier Heinrich Wennholz - killed
Sources:
NVM (NJG1_I_086); Balss, PV
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/person/207655 http://www.americanairmuseum.com/unit/920 Media:
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Jul-2019 11:18 |
TigerTimon |
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17-Jul-2019 14:01 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Embed code, Narrative] |
24-Mar-2020 19:42 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Destination airport, Operator] |
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