ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 157778
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Date: | Tuesday 14 March 1944 |
Time: | 23:30 |
Type: | Junkers Ju 88 A-14 |
Owner/operator: | 8./KG 6 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 141152 |
MSN: | 3E+LS |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Rendles farm, All Cannings, Devizes, Wiltshire -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Brüssel-Melsbroek airfield (B) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Became lost and crashed due to engine failue at Rendles farm, All Cannings, near Devizes, Wilts at 23.30. (This must have been on the homeward leg of its journey.)Uffz. H. Schönleitner killed, Obergefr. H. Baumgart, Obergefr. A. Harnisch and Gefr. G> Grünwald all POW.
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, the Luftwaffe raided London as part of Operation Steinbock.
Sources:
http://www.wiki.luftwaffedata.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=KG_6 http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Kampfgeschwader/KG6.htm Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Jul-2013 17:05 |
Nepa |
Added |
14-Feb-2014 20:03 |
Anon. |
Updated [Aircraft type, Departure airport] |
12-Mar-2019 19:19 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
24-Mar-2020 19:52 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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