ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50883
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| Date: | Monday 21 February 1944 |
| Time: | afternoon |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-5/U2 |
| Owner/operator: | 7./JG 1 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 110074 |
| MSN: | weisse 11 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Zwolle, Overijssel -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Volkel airfield (NL) |
The aircraft was shot down by a P-47 Thunderbolt that was flying fighter escort on the second day of Operation Argument AKA 'Big Week'.
The pilot, Unteroffizier F. Feier, was wounded.
Feindflug (operational sortie).
On this day, the USAAF raided the following airfields:
- Fliegerhorst Achmer, Niedersachsen
- Fliegerhorst Diepholz, Niedersachsen
- Fliegerhorst Quakenbrück, Niedersachsen
- Einsatzhafen Ahlhorn, Niedersachsen
- Einsatzhafen Hesepe, Niedersachsen
- Einsatzhafen Vörden, Niedersachsen
- Fliegerhorst Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Hopsten, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Lippstadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Münster-Handorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Werl, Nordrhein-Westfalen
In addition, aircraft industry (at Braunschweig, Hannover and Lingen (Niedersachsen)) and marshalling yards (at Coevorden (Drenthe, the Netherlands) and Lingen (Niedersachsen, Germany)) were bombed.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3441&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://ww2.dk/oob/bestand/jagd/biiijg1.html
http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/1636
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 17 July 1943 | 15440 | 7./JG 1 Luftwaffe | 1 | North Sea W of Den Haag, Zuid-Holland | |
w/o |
| 30 July 1943 | 15282 | 4./JG 2 Luftwaffe | 1 | Kruisbergsche Bosschen, Hummelo, Gelderland | |
w/o |
| 3 November 1943 | 410101 | 6./JG 3 Luftwaffe | 1 | along the road Zandvoort - Haarlem, Noord-Holland | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 14-Feb-2019 20:57 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Mar-2020 18:51 | DG333 | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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