ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 266578
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Date: | Friday 11 February 1944 |
Time: | 21:15 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 8./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 740035 |
MSN: | G9+FS |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor |
Location: | IJsselmeer poss near Overijssel -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Twente airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug (operational sortie).
The aircraft was shot up by a 169 Squadron Mosquito (F/O Shipley), while flying a patrol in GCI-box 'Marder'.
Damage: port wingtip shot away, port main spar shot through, fist-sized hole in the nose.
The crew of Oberleutnant Schmidt / Feldwebel Schönfeld returned safely to Twente.
This Messerschmitt was modified for Mosquito hunting. The entire armour and all the guns, except two cannons with little ammunition, had been removed, also the exhaust covers and drop tanks. In addition, the machine was smoothed over and polished and flown with only a two-man crew (memorised by Oberleutnant Dietrich Schmidt).
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
28 January 1944 |
740035 |
8./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
0 |
Twente Airfield, Overijssel |
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sub |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Aug-2021 14:45 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
15-Jun-2022 19:33 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
23-Jun-2022 11:14 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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