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Date: | Friday 14 February 1941 |
Time: | |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4 |
Owner/operator: | 1./JG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 6073 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near De Kooy Airfield, Noord-Holland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Katwijk airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:On 14 February 1941 Uffz Wilhelm Schmidt of 1./JG 1 collided in fog with his wingman and was killed when his Bf 109 E-4 WNr 6073 crashed near De Kooy.
Sources:
https://www.defensie.nl/binaries/defensie/documenten/brochures/2008/04/08/verliesregister-1941/verliesregister-1941.pdf "JG 1. L’histoire de la Jagdgeschwader 1 ’Oesau’", by Eric Mombeek. ISBN 2-9509485-2-9
"Die Jagdfliegerverbände der deutschen Luftwaffe 1934 bis 1945, Teil 4/II: Einsatz am Kanal und über England. 26.6.1940 bis 21.6.1941", by Jochen Prien & al, ISBN 3-923457-64-2
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vliegveld_de_Kooy http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=52.922151&lon=4.784546&z=13 http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Jagdgeschwader/Inhalt.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
22-Feb-2016 15:58 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Source, Narrative] |
03-May-2019 12:52 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator] |
13-Jul-2019 19:10 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Source] |
15-Jun-2022 08:19 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |