ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52595
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| Date: | Friday 28 August 1942 |
| Time: | 01:47 |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 110 F-4 |
| Owner/operator: | 3./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 2694 |
| MSN: | G9+BL |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Reeuwijk, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Venlo airfield |
Takeoff at 00:41 hrs for a Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, RAF Bomber Command raided Kassel in Germany.
The aircraft was shot down during a prolonged encounter with a bomber to the northwest of Rotterdam.
Both men did not survive and rest in Ysselsteyn cemetery (Limburg):
Flugzeugführer / Fw. W. Spille / grave M-2-30
Bordfunker / Uffz. J. Becker / grave M-2-31
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1798&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part three
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History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 June 1943 | 5475 | 3./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 0 | east of Elsendorp, Noord-Brabant | |
w/o |
| 17 August 1943 | 5551 | 3./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 1 | Flémalle, Liège |  |
w/o |
| 26 November 1943 | 5455 | 3./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 3 | Wachtendonk, Nordrhein-Westfalen |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Jul-2017 15:25 | TigerTimon | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 27-Aug-2017 11:04 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Sep-2019 17:56 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
| 20-May-2020 08:40 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Narrative] |
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