Accident Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-7 3620,
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Date:Tuesday 15 October 1940
Time:03:05 approx
Type:Silhouette image of generic me11 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Messerschmitt Bf 110 C-7
Owner/operator:2./NJG 1 Luftwaffe
Registration: 3620
MSN: G9+FK
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Siems, Gardelegen, Sachsen-Anhalt -   Germany
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Gardelegen airfield
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided four German cities.
The aircraft was severely damaged in an encounter with a 44 Squadron machine; it suddenly crashed and both men were killed:

(FF) Leutnant Hans-Georg Mangelsdorf
(Bf) Unteroffizier Hubert Winter

Sources:

Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part one
GQM (#2-3); NVM (NJG1_I_051); Mason, page 447.; BoB T&N, page 686; Balss, PV, page 8
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History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
29 June 1943 2./NJG 1 Luftwaffe 0 Gilze-Rijen Airfield, Noord-Brabant sub

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
24-Sep-2020 17:40 TigerTimon Added
24-Sep-2020 22:00 TigerTimon Updated [Time]

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