ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231540
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Date: | Sunday 30 January 1944 |
Time: | 12:45 approx |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 R-2 |
Owner/operator: | 8./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 751003 |
MSN: | R4+BS |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Lünne, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Gilze-Rijen airfield (NL) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft was shot down in aerial combat, when the formation of 8./NJG 2 Ju 88 night fighters was intercepted by a group of P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
(FF) Unteroffizier Konrad Ricken / killed
(Bf) Obergefreiter Erwin Knapp / killed
(Bs) Obergefreiter Norbert Plotz / killed
The Junkers had taken off at 12:19 hrs for a Feindflug - operational sortie. In the afternoon, the USAAF raided aviation industry and industrial areas at Braunschweig, whilst industrial areas at Hannover were struck as a Target of Opportunity.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Google Maps
WASt-Gräberkartei
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Dec-2019 14:27 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
27-Mar-2020 08:43 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
31-Dec-2021 15:07 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
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