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Date: | Wednesday 19 August 1942 |
Time: | day |
Type: | Dornier Do 217 E-4 |
Owner/operator: | 9./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 5423 |
MSN: | U5+GT, gelbe G |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | English Channel off Dieppe, Seine-Maritime département -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Deelen airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie to Dieppe in France, against Operation Jubilee.
The aircraft was shot down in aerial combat with 310 (Czech) Squadron Spitfires. One of the crew is missing in action:
(FF) Feldwebel Georg Grauer / killed
(B) Unteroffizier Kurt Konkat / killed
(Bf) Unteroffizier Alfons Iger / killed
(Bm) Gefreiter Horst Buchholz / missing in action
Sources:
GQM (#6-10); GQM (09.09.42 Ber. "aa" / 25.09.42 Ber. "hh"); Balke, KG2, II, page 439; VDK
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
16 August 1943 |
56160 |
9./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
4 |
English Channel off Beachy Head, East Sussex, England |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-May-2020 19:24 |
TigerTimon |
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