ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 242537
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| Date: | Wednesday 4 September 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4 |
| Owner/operator: | 3./JG 54 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 5026 |
| MSN: | gelbe 7 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | off Schouwen-Duiveland; Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Campagne-lès-Guînes airfield, France |
The aircraft was ditched into the North Sea following aerial combat, while engaged in a Feindflug (operational sortie).
Oberleutnant A. Witt did not survive; he washed up at Haamstede on 26 September. He rests at Ysselsteyn cemetery in Limburg.
Sources:
GQM (#2-3); Mason, page 350; BoB T&N, page 620
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0815B&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20France.pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 November 1943 | 27050 | 6./JG 2 Luftwaffe | 0 | Stramproy, Limburg | |
w/o |
| 5 November 1943 | 15949 | III./JG 26 Luftwaffe | 0 | Tilburg - 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant | |
sub |
| 19 September 1944 | 781309 | 6./JG 11 Luftwaffe | 1 | Exel, Lochem; road between Lochem and Laren, Gelderland | |
w/o |
| 1 January 1945 | 783846 | 1./JG 3 Luftwaffe | 0 | near the Gordenaars road at Batenburg, Gelderland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Sep-2020 17:09 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 17-Sep-2020 17:10 | TigerTimon | Updated [Phase] |
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