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Date: | Saturday 30 December 1944 |
Time: | 01:55 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
Owner/operator: | 1./NJG 6 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 720411 |
MSN: | 2Z+WH |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 1.5 km southeast of Kirrlach, Waghäusel, Baden-Württemberg -
Germany
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Grosssachsenheim airfield, Baden-Württemberg |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Nachtschlacht.
The aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed. Oberleutnant Fritz Wittenburg was severely injured in the process. The other two men suffered no injuries, they safely took to their parachutes.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part five
NVM (NJG6_I_041); Kock, KTB NJG6, page 205
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