ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 248428
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Date: | Wednesday 26 July 1944 |
Time: | 01:25 LT |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 G-6 |
Owner/operator: | 7./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 620022 |
MSN: | 4R+RR |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Birken, Lohmar, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Volkel airfield, the Netherlands (takeoff between 23:35 and 00:00 hrs) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg) and an oil target at Wanne Eickel (Ruhrgebiet).
The aircraft was shot up in aerial combat, the crew evacuating the Junkers by parachute. The Bordfunker was injured in the process.
Sources:
Balss, Personalverluste
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part four
Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
02-Mar-2021 18:54 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
02-Mar-2021 18:55 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Departure airport] |
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