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Date: | Sunday 17 September 1944 |
Time: | 14:37 LT |
Type: | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8 |
Owner/operator: | 8./JG 26 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 171565 |
MSN: | blaue 5 + – |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hoxfeld (1 km south of), Borken, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Kirchhellen airfield (base) |
Destination airport: | Feindflug - operational sortie |
Narrative:Aerial combat with P-51 Mustang aircraft of the 4th Fighter Group USAAF; crashed after taking hits in the cockpit.
The aircraft had taken off for a Jabo-Jagd operation in the Liège - Aachen - Mönchengladbach area flying in Staffelverband.
(FF) Unteroffizier Gross, Helmut
Sources:
Personalverluste-JG26 (290); Caldwell, JG26 War Diary, II, page 351
Google Maps
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Germany%20[1937%20Borders].pdf
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
1 January 1945 |
739235 |
2./JG 1 Luftwaffe |
1 |
Zwijnaarde, Ghent, East Flanders |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-Sep-2021 09:00 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
20-Sep-2021 09:01 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |