ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 203725
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| Date: | Monday 4 January 1943 |
| Time: | 19:50 |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 110 F-4 |
| Owner/operator: | 7./NJG 1 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 4653 |
| MSN: | G9+AR |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | the Thyssen plant at Duisburg-Hamborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Twente airfield (NL) |
A direct Flak hit in the left wing and engine was the cause of loss of this Nachtjäger. The Staffelkapitän of the 7. Staffel chased a bomber into a Flaksperrgebiet, an area closed for night fighters.
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided Essen.
Flugzeugführer Oberleutnant Wolfrat Bauer / Ysselsteyn cemetery (Limburg, the Netherlands); initially buried at Enschede
Bordfunker Unteroffizier H-G. Steins / slightly injured
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1973G&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://www.ww2.dk/air/njagd/njg1.htm
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part one
https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10329005
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 7 May 1942 | 4298 | 7./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 0 | Werl airfield; Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
sub |
| 3 January 1944 | 740063 | 7./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 0 | Beeskow, Brandenburg | |
w/o |
| 21 February 1945 | 180839 | 7./NJG 1 Luftwaffe | 3 | Lippspringe airfield (3 km northwest of), Nordrhein-Westfalen | |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 03-Jan-2018 13:07 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 05-Jan-2019 11:20 | TigerTimon | Updated [Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 04-Jun-2019 19:23 | TigerTimon | Updated [Departure airport] |
| 05-Feb-2020 09:46 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
| 07-May-2021 12:23 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location, Source] |
| 07-May-2021 12:25 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
| 17-May-2021 14:08 | TigerTimon | Updated [Location] |
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