ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 54319
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| Date: | Sunday 31 March 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: | Dornier Do 17 Z-2 |
| Owner/operator: | Wekusta 26 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | 5M+M |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea near Ameland, Friesland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Münster-Loddenheide airfield (G) |
The aircraft failed to return from a meteo recce operation.
Crew:
Flugzeugführer / Unteroffizier Gerhard Hertel / missing in action
Civil Meteorologist / Dr. Joseph Wille / washed up Ameland island on the ninth of June
Bordfunker / Unteroffizier Helmut Biester / Ysselsteyn cemetery in Limburg; grave AP-5-105 / washed up Ameland island on the ninth of April
Bordmechaniker / Unteroffizier Franz Jahn / missing in action
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0014&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
GQM (#1-1); Cornwell, BoF, s.154; Wekusta, s.123; VDK
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Germany%20[1937%20Borders].pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 09-Nov-2012 13:56 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator] |
| 09-Nov-2012 13:58 | Uli Elch | Updated [Operator] |
| 02-Mar-2019 17:24 | Cobar | Updated [Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Source] |
| 25-Feb-2020 14:03 | TigerTimon | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Feb-2020 18:29 | Xindel XL | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Narrative, Operator] |
| 12-Jun-2022 09:53 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location] |
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