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Date: | Wednesday 1 September 1943 |
Time: | 01:02 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 5./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 5364 |
MSN: | G9+AN |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | between Jütchendorf and Siethen at Ludwigsfelde, Brandenburg -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield, Belgium |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at around 22:30 hrs for a Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Berlin.
The aircraft rammed 75 Squadron Stirling EH905, causing the right wing of the Messerschmitt to shear.
Hauptmann Wilhelm Telge perished in the crash, his Bordfunker Oberleutnant Heinz Freymann managed to escape by parachute at the last moment.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
GQM (#11-21); NVM (NJG1_II_051); Balss, PV; Engau, Nachtjäger, page 209
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History of this aircraft
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28 August 1942 |
3739 |
5./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
0 |
Herbestal, Lontzen, Liège |
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w/o |
15 June 1943 |
4879 |
5./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
0 |
Sint-Truiden Airfield, Limburg |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Nov-2020 18:01 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
17-Nov-2020 18:25 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
17-Nov-2020 18:29 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Departure airport] |