ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49532
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| Date: | Sunday 17 December 1944 |
| Time: | 22:00 LT |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 110 G-4 |
| Owner/operator: | 6./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 730354 |
| MSN: | G9+IP |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Lage Bos at Elsloo (along the railway), Limburg -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Düsseldorf airfield, Germany |
Took off at 21:30 hrs for Sondereinsatz Nachteule, a Nachtschlacht operation in support of the von Rundstedt-offensive.
The crew had been briefed to shoot up traffic on the roads between Sittard, Maastricht and Liège.
The aircraft was shot down by AA fire from 108th HAA Regiment. The three crew were initially buried in a fieldgrave near the crash location, and buried at Ysselsteyn cemetery in March 1949.
Flugzeugführer / Uffz. B. Tegethoff
Bordfunker / Ogfr. K. Behrendt
Bordschütze / Uffz. H. Becker
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4815&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part five
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Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 6 September 1943 | 5356 | 6./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 0 | Wiesbaden-Erbenheim airfield, Hessen |  |
w/o |
| 31 December 1944 | 6./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 0 | Düsseldorf airfield, Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 31-Jul-2021 08:08 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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