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Date: | Sunday 14 January 1945 |
Time: | morning |
Type: | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-9 |
Owner/operator: | 1./JG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 980207 |
MSN: | weisse 6 + |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Bad Bentheim, GB, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Twente airfield (NL) |
Destination airport: | Werneuchen airfield (G) |
Narrative:Under command of Major G. Capito, the I. Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader was ordered to the eastern front. The aircraft would have to fly to Werneuchen in Brandenburg first.
Due to fog, takeoff was delayed. Warning came in, that enemy fighter bombers were on their way.
However, when the weather cleared, some aircraft did take off, ignoring the warning. RCAF Supermarine Spitfires of the 401, 411 & 442 Squadrons dove onto the aircraft and took out a stunning number of eleven Focke-Wulfs.
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Weisse 6 was shot down by the Canadian Spitfires. Leutnant Bruno Honsek did not survive.
Sources:
http://www.luchtoorlogboventwente.nl/450114LUF.php book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd'
Prien/Rodeike, JG 1/11, III, s.1641
Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
2 September 1943 |
181662 |
II./SKG 10 Luftwaffe |
0 |
near Monasterace Marina, Calabria region |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Jan-2020 16:01 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
31-Jan-2020 22:57 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
25-Jun-2022 04:07 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |