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Date: | Sunday 23 April 1944 |
Time: | 04:00 approx |
Type: | Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle ST.II |
Owner/operator: | 42 OTU RAF |
Registration: | V1610 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Lowestoft, Suffolk, England -
United Kingdom
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Ashbourne, Derbyshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 02:30 hrs for a night training flight.
The aircraft was set on fire by intruder pilot Unteroffizier Walter Brügel of the 4./KG 51, who was flying an Me 410 A-1/U2 from an airfield in the Netherlands. Two of the crew managed to escape by parachute before the aircraft crashed.
Sources:
No Place for Chivalry page 158
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part two
Google Maps
- Air Britain: RAF Aircraft T1000 - V9999, published 1997
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
03-Jan-2012 07:24 |
Uli Elch |
Added |
29-Oct-2019 13:31 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Location, Phase, Narrative] |
02-Apr-2020 20:54 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |