Accident Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8 174128,
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Date:Saturday 23 September 1944
Time:evening
Type:Silhouette image of generic fw19 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8
Owner/operator:13./JG 54 Luftwaffe
Registration: 174128
MSN: weisse 6
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:area west of Kleve, Nordrhein-Westfalen -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Plantlünne airfield (G)
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Takeoff at 18:10 hrs for a Feindflug - operational sortie.
The aircraft was shot down in aerial combat with some thirty USAAF P-47 Thunderbolts.

The pilot, Uffz. G. Liebezeit, is missing in action.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4328E&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
8 October 1943 550729 1./JG 1 Luftwaffe 1 1 km south of Vroomshoop, Overijssel w/o
6 October 1944 160818 7./KG 51 Luftwaffe 1 Übach-Palenberg area, Nordrhein-Westfalen w/o
1 January 1945 739230 5./JG 1 Luftwaffe 1 missing near Ghent, East Flanders mis

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
14-Sep-2019 16:20 TigerTimon Added
27-Feb-2020 19:34 Xindel XL Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]

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