Accident Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 15772,
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Date:Thursday 14 October 1943
Time:afternoon
Type:Silhouette image of generic ME09 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6
Owner/operator:3./JG 3 Luftwaffe
Registration: 15772
MSN: gelbe 5
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Aircraft missing
Location:Missing, Antwerp - Westerschelde area -
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Bönninghardt airfield, Germany
Destination airport:Feindflug - operational sortie
Narrative:
The aircraft fell in aerial combat with P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft.

Feldwebel P. Kastl is missing in action.

At 14:30 hrs, a 109 came down into the Westerschelde, 250 mtr SE Hoedekenskerke (Zeeland). This could have been W.Nr. 15772.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T2981C&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
4 October 1943 26096 6./JG 3 Luftwaffe 0 Nieuwstadt, Limburg w/o
3 November 1943 26113 6./JG 3 Luftwaffe 1 North Sea, off Noordwijk, Zuid-Holland w/o
28 January 1944 IV./JG 3 Luftwaffe 0 Venlo Airfield, Limburg w/o
21 February 1944 410141 9./JG 1 Luftwaffe 1 IJsselmeer, Noord-Holland w/o

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
21-Dec-2021 18:23 TigerTimon Added
05-Nov-2022 09:21 Ron Averes Updated [Location]

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