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Date: | Monday 3 January 1944 |
Time: | 02:15 LT |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 A-4 |
Owner/operator: | 8./KG 3 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 550263 |
MSN: | 5K+CS |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Neuenkirchen-Vörden, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Münster-Handorf airfield (G) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft crashed due to icing (Vereisung).
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Berlin.
Crew:
(FF) Leutnant Franz Hilpert / killed
(B) Unteroffizier Erich Bria / killed
(Bs) Feldwebel Martin-Herbert Wünsch / wounded
(Bs) Obergefreiter Gerhard Heitmann / killed
Sources:
Namentlichte Verlustmeldung, via LW Losses by Michael Balss
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Dec-2019 18:01 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
27-Mar-2020 16:15 |
DG333 |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |