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Date: | Sunday 26 May 1940 |
Time: | |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 110 C |
Owner/operator: | I./ZG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Neufchâteau-Perchepet, Luxembourg -
Belgium
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Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Neufchateau |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Major Johannes "Hannes" Gentzen, Germany's First Ace of WWII - KIA - buried at Neubrandenburg-Neuer Friedhof; gunner, Leutenant Hartwig Domeier - KIA - buried at HAMBURG OHLSDORF
During a raid by a pair of RAF Blenheims, Major Gentzen raced for the squadrons one serviceable Bf-110 to give chase to the fleeing RAF bombers. In their haste to make a quick take-off, neither man had strapped themselves in properly. On take-off, the tail of the straining Bf-110 clipped the tops of the trees bordering the end of the airfield and the aircraft cart-wheeled into the ground, killing the two occupants instantly
Sources:
Centre de documentation Brussels Air Museum
http://www.danielsww2.com/HildebrandtGentzen.html
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
20-May-2011 13:56 |
ThW |
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09-Jun-2011 13:03 |
ThW |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
09-Jun-2011 13:26 |
ThW |
Updated [Phase] |
16-Jun-2011 11:42 |
ThW |
Updated [Narrative] |
10-Jan-2012 06:56 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
25-Jul-2013 18:34 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
09-Dec-2019 17:12 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
06-Nov-2022 12:06 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |