ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50900
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| Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
| Time: | 22:36 |
| Type: |  Dornier Do 217 M-1 |
| Owner/operator: | 9./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 326407 |
| MSN: | U5+HT |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea, 80 km east of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Gilze-Rijen airfield (NL) |
Vermutlich Feindbeschuss (Mosquito). The aircraft was presumably hit by a Mosquito night fighter.
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, the Luftwaffe raided London as part of Operation Steinbock.
Crew:
Flugzeugführer Uffz. W. Schmidt 57359/535 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn BT-2-46 - washed up Texel island (the Netherlands) 29 April 1944
Beobachter Uffz. K. Frese 57359/555 Luftwaffe Missing in action
Bordfunker Ogfr. S. Briesning 57359/495 Luftwaffe Missing in action
Bordmechaniker Gfr. H. Bodzin 57359/487 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn CL-4-89 - washed up near Petten (Noord-Holland, the Netherlands) 1 May 1944
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3434A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Steinbock
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 November 1942 | 4372 | Stab III./KG 2 Luftwaffe | 0 | Deelen Airfield, Gelderland |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 11-Feb-2019 11:59 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Mar-2020 19:10 | DG333 | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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