Accident Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-9 980540,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 49508
 
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Date:Sunday 24 December 1944
Time:13:00 LT
Type:Silhouette image of generic fw19 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-9
Owner/operator:1./JG 6 Luftwaffe
Registration: 980540
MSN: weisse 8
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Soerendonk, Noord-Brabant -   Netherlands
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Delmenhorst airfield (G)
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Feindflug - operational sortie.
The aircraft was shot down by fighter pilot S/L Mackie of 274 Squadron RAF, who was flying a Tempest Mk V from B.80 Volkel airfield.

The pilot, Lt. G. Rieckhoff, did not survive and rests at Ysselsteyn cemetery; grave BJ-12-237.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T4839A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps
http://www.historyofwar.org/air/units/RAF/274_wwII.html

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
28 July 1943 1405 Ekdo 25 Luftwaffe 1 Ekehaar, Drenthe w/o
23 January 1945 211059 1./JG 26 Luftwaffe 0 west of Hengelo, Overijssel w/o

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Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
26-Oct-2019 16:56 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Embed code, Narrative]
27-Feb-2020 19:30 Xindel XL Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator]

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