ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49451
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Date: | Monday 1 January 1945 |
Time: | 09:45 LT |
Type: | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8 |
Owner/operator: | 5./JG 6 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 175049 |
MSN: | weisse 7 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Erp, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Quakenbrück airfield (G) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Operation - Bodenplatte. Target: B.80 Volkel airfield.
The aircraft was shot down by F/Lt. Gordon of 442 Squadron RCAF, who was flying a Spitfire LF Mk IX from B.88 Heesch airfield.
442 Squadron had taken off for a fighter sweep in the Venlo area when the pilots were surprised by operation Bodenplatte.
Lt. K. Grabmair did not survive and rests at Ysselsteyn cemetery in Limburg; grave L-6-139.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4979&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
23-Nov-2019 20:41 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
26-Feb-2020 18:46 |
Xindel XL |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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