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Date: | Wednesday 19 August 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Dornier Do 217 E-4 |
Owner/operator: | 5./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 4292 |
MSN: | U5+YN, rote Y |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | English Channel off Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime département -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Eindhoven airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie to Dieppe in France, against Operation Jubilee.
The aircraft suffered a direct hit from ground fire and crashed into the sea. The four crew members are missing in action:
(FF) Unteroffizier Helmut Kroll
(B) Feldwebel Alfred Wachsmuth
(Bf) Feldwebel Anton Maier
(Bm) Oberfeldwebel Franz Mai
Sources:
GQM (#6-10); GQM (31.08.42 Erg. "a"); Balke, KG2, II, page 438
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-May-2020 17:20 |
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