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Date: | Saturday 22 April 1944 |
Time: | 22:22 claim |
Type: | Consolidated B-24H Liberator |
Owner/operator: | 448th BGp /715th BSqn USAAF |
Registration: | 42-94744 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | railway embankment at Worlingham near Beccles, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Seething/AAF Sta.146, Norfolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Seething, Norfolk |
Narrative:'Peggy Jo' was returning from an operation against Hamm in Germany, when it was shot down by intruder pilot Unteroffizier Eberhard Baier of the 6./KG 51, who was flying an Me 410 A-1/U2 from an airfield in the Netherlands. The starboard inner engine erupted in flames and the aircraft went into a dive. All ten crew members managed to escape by parachute.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
Google Maps
'The Last Blitz' by MacKay & Parry
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Apr-2020 19:35 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
26-Jan-2021 10:22 |
Anon. |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |