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Date: | Wednesday 19 August 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Dornier Do 217 E-4 |
Owner/operator: | 7./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 5477 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Merville airfield in the département du Nord -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Deelen airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie to Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime département, against Operation Jubilee.
The pilot performed a belly-landing with battle damage caused in aerial combat with 310 (Czech) Squadron Spitfires. Bordmechaniker (flight engineer) Obergefreiter Fritz Brückner was mortally injured.
A whopping 100 bullet strikes were counted and the damage was assessed as 50%.
Sources:
GQM (#6-10); Balke, KG2, II, page 438; VDK
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20France.pdf Google Maps
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