ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 302439
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| Date: | Thursday 10 December 1942 |
| Time: | 20:17 claim |
| Type: |  Dornier Do 217 E-4 |
| Owner/operator: | 7./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 1193 |
| MSN: | U5+HR, weisse H |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | North Sea 50 miles (80 km) off Cromer in Norfolk, England -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Deelen airfield, the Netherlands |
| Feindflug - operational sortie |
Operation - minelaying before the Humber mouth between Spurn Head and Scarborough.
The aircraft was intercepted by F/Lt Miloslav Mansfeld and P/O Slavomil Janáček of 68 Squadron RAF, who had taken off from RAF Coltishall at 19:35 hrs in Beaufighter Mk I V8253.
(FF) Oblt Hackel, Erich / killed
(B) Ofw Heidt, Hermann / missing
(Bf) Uffz Heydenreich, Rudolf / killed
(Bm) Uffz Franke, Rudi / missing
Sources:
GQM (#7); Balke, KG2, II, page 446; GQ v. 13.12.1942, 53
Google Maps
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Miloslav_Mansfeld
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=62842
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/68_wwII.html
ORB 68 Sqdn, via TNA
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