ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 64184
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| Date: | Friday 8 March 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju 88A-1 |
| Owner/operator: | 2./KG 30 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | North Sea, 40 miles east of Orkney Islands -
 United Kingdom
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| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
On 8 March 1940, Flg Off Roy G Dutton of 111 Sqn RAF based in Wick and flying the Hurricane I L1973 shot down 40 miles east of Orkney Islands a German bomber that was credited as a He 111 but Dutton claims it was a Ju 88. The Ju88 span in to the sea from about 10 feet and disintegrated on impact. He says that as he flew past the geyser of spray he saw a body spinning ahead of some burning wreckage. It then goes on to say that two RN destroyers recovered a body and some burning wreckage. It was the second victory of Dutton, who had claimed 1/3 He 111 shot down on 13 January. He ended the war as a Wing Cdr with 13 individual victories and 6 shared.
His victime was a Ju 88 A-1 of 2./KG 30 that did not return from a Feindflug. The loss reason is noted as ’Vermutlich durch feindl.Jäger abgeschossen’ - ’Probably shot down by enemy fighter aircraft’. Some sources indicate that the crew was captured or interned in Denmark, but in fact they were all lost.
Crew (all lost):
Oblt Frithjof von Sichartshoff (pilot)
Fw Paul Marheineke (bombardier)
Uffz Josef Severin (radio)
Gefr Karl Rothe (gunner)
Sources:
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showthread.php?t=9697
http://web.archive.org/web/20120320130812/http://www.rafandluftwaffe.info/luftwaffe1.html
http://www.the-battle-of-britain.co.uk/pilots/Do-pilots.html
"Aces high: a tribute to the most notable fighter pilots of the British and Commonwealth forces in WWII", by Christopher Shores and Clive Williams, ISBN 1-898697-00-0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkney
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=59.000000&lon=-3.000000&z=8&m=b
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-May-2009 12:58 | XLerate | Added |
| 26-Jan-2014 17:56 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Country, Source, Narrative] |
| 30-Jan-2014 16:32 | TB | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Damage, Narrative] |
| 30-Jan-2014 17:19 | TB | Updated [Date, Total fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative] |
| 22-May-2017 17:25 | Laurent Rizzotti | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Dec-2019 10:14 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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