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Date: | Friday 24 December 1943 |
Time: | 02:30 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 4./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 740139 |
MSN: | G9+HM |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Untereschbach, Overath, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | St Trond (Sint-Truiden) airfield, Belgium |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Berlin.
The aircraft plummeted burning from the sky from a height of 5500 metres following a 141 Squadron Beaufighter attack from behind.
(FF) Oberleutnant Lenz Finster - killed - Staffelkapitän 4./NJG 1
(Bf) Feldwebel Siegfried Beugel - bailed out, severely injured
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part three
GQM (#12-24); NVM (NJG1_II_071); Balss, PV, page 178
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9 February 1944 |
720055 |
4./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
2 |
northeast of Kaumeshoek, Beringe, Limburg |
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Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-Nov-2020 15:54 |
TigerTimon |
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