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Date: | Sunday 3 October 1943 |
Time: | 22:20 LT |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 C-6 |
Owner/operator: | Stab I./NJG 3 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 360455 |
MSN: | D5+XB |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Schwaneburger Moor, Friesoythe, Niedersachsen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Vechta airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided Kassel in Hessen.
The Junkers was lost in a collision with an RAF heavy bomber at 22:20 hrs. The Bordschütze was killed:
(FF) Hauptmann Walter Milius - bailed out, slightly injured
(Bf) Oberfeldwebel Werner Blasius - bailed out, slightly injured
(Bs) Oberfeldwebel Wilhelm Maaß - bailed out, killed
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
GQM (#11-22); NVM (NJG3_I_043)
Google Maps
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Germany%20[1937%20Borders].pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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