ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 231806
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| Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
| Time: | 03:40 claim |
| Type: |  Handley Page Halifax Mk III |
| Owner/operator: | 51 Sqn RAF |
| Registration: | LW481 |
| MSN: | MH-X |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 8 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Stendal, Sachsen-Anhalt -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | RAF Snaith, Yorkshire |
Takeoff at 00:04 hrs for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Sachsen.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Oberleutnant Helmuth Schulte of the Stab II./NJG 5, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Parchim airfield in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Google Maps
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LW481
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Nachtjagdgeschwader/NJG5.htm
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 23 June 1943 | JD251 | 51 Sqn RAF | 6 | central cemetery of Mülheim an der Ruhr, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Dec-2019 11:29 | TigerTimon | Added |
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