ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49221
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| Date: | Saturday 3 February 1945 |
| Time: | 20:30 approx |
| Type: |  Heinkel He 219 A-2 |
| Owner/operator: | 1./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 290070 |
| MSN: | G9+OH |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Schmelendorf, Kempen, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Münster-Handorf airfield |
| Feindflug - operational sortie |
(FF) Hauptmann Alexander Graf Rességuier de Miremont / parachute jump, slightly wounded
(Bf) Feldwebel Fritz Habicht / parachute jump, spinal injury
The KTB of I./NJG1 recorded: “Hptm. Graf Rességuier-Fw. Habicht 1 Abschuss (Lancaster). Own machine is shot on fire when opening fire itself, crew is forced to jump. Hptm. Graf Rességuier lightly wounded in the face by shrapnel and in the shoulder, landed safely. Fw. Habicht suffers a spinal dislocation and a grazing of the shoulder. Hptm. Graf Rességuier arrives back in the same night from the Kempen, his Funker is taken to hospital.”
Sources:
'Heinkel He 219' by R. Francis Ferguson
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1945
NVM (NJG1_I_109); GQM (766/77); Balls, PV; www.ejection-seat.org.uk
Google Maps
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 18-Jun-2022 10:55 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
| 05-Jul-2022 14:38 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Jul-2022 16:37 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time] |
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