Accident Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8 171535,
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Date:Sunday 17 September 1944
Time:17:50 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic fw19 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
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
Google Maps

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
05-Sep-2019 16:06 TigerTimon Added
24-Mar-2020 19:45 DB Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]

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