ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 240875
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Date: | Tuesday 29 February 1944 |
Time: | |
Type: | Bell P-39 Airacobra |
Owner/operator: | 255 IAP Soviet Navy - Northern Fleet |
Registration: | - |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Luostari Pechenga Airfield (now Murmansk Oblast, RU) -
Finland
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:On 29 February 1944 during a Combat Mission, Airacobra of 255 IAP was shot down by Flak over Luostari Pechenga Airfield ((now Murmansk Oblast, RU).
Lt. Alexander Pavlovich Gorbachev was killed.
Sources:
https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/person-hero123493845/ https://obd-memorial.ru/html/info.htm?id=76564025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luostari/Pechenga_(air_base)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luostari_(inhabited_locality)
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Sep-2020 09:59 |
JF |
Added |
29-Nov-2020 18:15 |
JF |
Updated [Operator] |
29-Nov-2021 07:51 |
JF |
Updated [Registration, Location, Source, Narrative] |
07-Aug-2023 15:20 |
JF |
Updated [[Registration, Location, Source, Narrative]] |
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