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Date: | Sunday 30 January 1944 |
Time: | 13:05 approx |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 R-2 |
Owner/operator: | 9./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 751017 |
MSN: | R4+CT |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Bad Bentheim, GB, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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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 9./NJG 2 Ju 88 night fighters was intercepted by a group of P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft.
(FF) Oberfeldwebel Alfred Schwarzer / killed
(Bf) Unteroffizier Armschat / bailed out, wounded
(Bs) Obergefreiter Walter Glöckner / killed
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
LW Losses by Michael Balss
Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
28 August 1942 |
360181 |
Stab III./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
0 |
Gilze-Rijen Airfield, Noord-Brabant |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Dec-2019 14:37 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
27-Mar-2020 08:44 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
25-Jun-2022 04:07 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |