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Date: | Sunday 3 October 1943 |
Time: | 22:20 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 9./NJG 3 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 6317 |
MSN: | D5+IT |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1 km east-southeast of Osterlinde, Salzgitter, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Stade airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided Kassel in Hessen.
The aircraft was surprised in a sudden intruder attack of a 25 Squadron Mosquito and crashed. The pilot Unteroffizier Walter Rohlfing managed to bail out safely but his two crew members were killed:
(Bf) Unteroffizier Albert Groß
(Bw) Flieger Heinz Dreißig
Sources:
GQM (#11-22); NVM (NJG3_III_019)
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
Google Maps
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
13 December 1943 |
740080 |
9./NJG 3 Luftwaffe |
1 |
Elbe river mouth off Balje, Niedersachsen |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
18-Nov-2020 20:25 |
TigerTimon |
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