Accident Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-4 0566,
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Date:Saturday 17 April 1943
Time:afternoon
Type:Silhouette image of generic fw19 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
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
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

Revision history:

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