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Date: | Sunday 23 April 1944 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 C-6 |
Owner/operator: | 8./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 750859 |
MSN: | R4+GS |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Twente airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at around 00.05 - 00.20 hrs for a Feindflug (operational sortie) to engage the RAF Bomber Command Düsseldorf raid.
The aircraft following aerial combat, the three crew members perishing:
(FF) Leutnant Winfried Glaubitz / killed
(Bf) Unteroffizier Helmut Hentschel / killed
(Bs) Obergefreiter August Pietruschka / killed
Sources:
Namentliche Verlustmeldung, via Michael Balss
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
04-Apr-2020 17:53 |
TigerTimon |
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