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Date: | Saturday 17 April 1943 |
Time: | afternoon |
Type: | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-4 |
Owner/operator: | 3./JG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 0566 |
MSN: | gelbe 12 + |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Bahlum, Emtinghausen, Niedersachsen -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Deelen airfield, the Netherlands |
Destination airport: | Feindflug - operational sortie |
Narrative:Fell in aerial combat with B-17 Fortresses of the 8th USAAF which raided the Focke-Wulfs works at Bremen.
Unteroffizier Hans Pelzer didn't survive.
Today he rests in the war cemetery in Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic). He was born 1919 in this town.
Sources:
Prien/Rodeike, JG 1/11, page 599
www.fliegerschicksale.de Google Maps
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