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Date: | Tuesday 24 August 1943 |
Time: | 02:40 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Me 410 A-1 |
Owner/operator: | 16./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 0287 |
MSN: | U5 + EG |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Missing - North Sea -
Atlantic Ocean
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Cambrai-Épinoy airfield (F) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Pilot: Feldwebel. Werner Benner. 58214/189 - Missing.
Born 10.12.1916 in Bochum.
Radio/Op: Unteroffizier. Hermann Reimers. 58214/195 - Missing.
Born 04.01.1921 in Boecken/Rendsburg.
REASON FOR LOSS :
This aircraft was intercepted and shot down by Capt Johan Rad and Capt Lovested (Norwegian) in a Mosquito Mk XII of No. 85 Squadron.
Feindflug - operational sortie. On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Berlin.
The aircraft had taken off for an operation over East Anglia in England.
Sources:
Luftwaffe losses aircrewremembrancesociety3.com
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
Balke, KG2, II, s.464
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jan-2020 19:00 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
03-Jan-2020 19:01 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
18-Mar-2020 14:47 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Operator] |