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Date: | Saturday 23 December 1944 |
Time: | 20:12 LT |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 G-6 |
Owner/operator: | 11./NJG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 620783 |
MSN: | 4R+HV |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Dortmund-Brackel airfield, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Dortmund-Brackel airfield |
Destination airport: | Dortmund-Brackel airfield |
Narrative:Feindflug - operational sortie. On this evening, the RAF mounted a Window feint which provoked a massive Nachtjagd response.
The Junkers crash-landed due to engine failure and got into a bomb crater.
(FF) Ofw. Schwiewagner, Karl / injured
(Bf) Ogfr. Vetter, Hans Georg / succumbed to injuries in Unna on the 28th of December - Unna-Südfriedhof
Sources:
NVM (NJG2_IV_006); GQM (766/12, ber, s.)
Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e.V.
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part five
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Sep-2021 11:46 |
TigerTimon |
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