ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 274982
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| Date: | Saturday 12 February 1944 |
| Time: | 15:00 approx |
| Type: |  Dornier Do 217 M-1 |
| Owner/operator: | 3./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 26258 |
| MSN: | U5+GL |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Josselin, Morbihan département -
 France
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Eindhoven airfield, the Netherlands |
| Vannes airfield (presumably) |
Shot down by Squadron Leader Geoff Warnes of 263 Squadron RAF.
Seven Typhoon Mk Ib of this squadron had taken off at 13:02 hrs from RAF Beaulieu for a fighter sweep in the Gaël-Rennes area.
At 14:57 hrs the Dornier was spotted and fired upon by the allied pilot. Return fire was delivered from the dorsal position, resulting in minor damage to the tail plane of the Typhoon. Six crew members bailed out, one didn't survive:
(Bs) Uffz. Pakulla, Hans / wounded
(FW) Uffz. Fiedler, Bruno / killed
(FM) Uffz. Thiel, Josef / wounded
Sources:
Balke, KG2, II, page 479; R.T. (NVM)
WASt-Gräberkarte
RAF combat report
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 4 December 1943 | 56096 | 3./KG 2 Luftwaffe | 0 | the Rollfeld of Eindhoven airfield, Noord-Brabant |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Feb-2022 12:11 | TigerTimon | Added |
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