Date:	Monday 1 January 1945
Time:
Type:	Douglas Dakota III (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Royal Air Force - RAF
Registration:	KG488
MSN:	12809
Year of manufacture:	1944
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	UI
Location:	Brussels/Evere Advanced Landing Ground B-56 -   Belgium
Phase:	Standing
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:	-
Destination airport:	-

Narrative:
On 1 January 1945, the German Luftwaffe launched an attempt to hit Allied air forces in Belgium, the Netherlands and France. Operation Bodenplatte as it was known among others targeted Brussels/Evere Advanced Landing Ground B-56.
Jagdgeschwader 26 strafed the air base using Focke-Wulf Fw 190's and Messerschmitt Bf 109's.
Of the 127 aircraft on the ground, 40 were reported lost. Among those four RAF Douglas Dakota's (KG488, KG736, KG800, and KJ803).

The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge

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