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Date: | Sunday 17 September 1944 |
Time: | 17:50 LT |
Type: | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8 |
Owner/operator: | 4./JG 26 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 171535 |
MSN: | blaue 7 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kleefseweg road, Ottersum, Limburg -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Krefeld-Linn airfield (G) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie) - Jabo-Jagd Niederrhein-Gebiet (patrol against enemy fighter-bombers in the Lower Rhine region).
The aircraft was shot down by Supermarine Spitfires of 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron RAF.
The body of the pilot, Uffz. A. Neumann, was never identified but his remains rests in a cemetery in Germany.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4093K&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= PV-JG26 (290); Caldwell, JG26 War Diary, II, s.351; A.I.2g 131/I
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
05-Sep-2019 16:06 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
24-Mar-2020 19:45 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |