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Date: | Saturday 11 November 1944 |
Time: | evening |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 9./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
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Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Berghofen, Battenberg, Hessen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
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Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie. On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided the Hoesch Benzin synthetic oil plant at Wambel, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen.
After taking enemy fire in the Dortmund area and having suffered engine damage, the crew of Feldwebel Karl Neumann took to their parachutes; aircraft crashed into a barn.
Sources:
R.Arnold, "Am Rande einer Katastrophe"; LBB (11.8.2011)
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part five
Google Maps
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Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Sep-2021 19:21 |
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