ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 173198
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| Date: | Thursday 25 March 1943 |
| Time: | 00:30 |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju 88 A-14 |
| Owner/operator: | 4./KG 6 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 144537 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Silverburn, Hare Hill, Scotland -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Deelen airfield (NL) |
24 March 1943, evening: a four-man crew embarked on a mission to bomb Leith Docks aimed at disrupting naval traffic. The Junkers with call sign '3E+HM' took off from an airstrip near Paris (Pontoise – Cormeilles Aerodrome), they proceeded to Deelen airfield (near Arnhem, the Netherlands) to be bombed up and refuelled and was later en route up the Dutch North Sea coast before turning north-west towards the Firth of Forth.
The crew failed to locate their target and decided to jettison their incendiary bombs outside Edinburgh.The aircraft overshot the city in poor visibility and flew into Hare Hill to the south of the city at 00:30. The plane crashed on the summit of Hare Hill, into the hillside.
German airmen were:
Oberleutnant Fritz Förster (probably) Pilot 1
[Equivalent Rank: Flying Officer / 1st Lieutenant]
Obergefreiter Heinz Kristall, Wireless Operator / Air Gunner.
[Equivalent Rank: Senior Aircraftman]
Unteroffizier Horst Bluhm (possibly) Pilot, Wireless Operator / Air Gunner.
[Equivalent Rank: Sergeant]
Gefreiter Willi Euler, Air Gunner.
[Equivalent Rank: Leading Aircraftman]
Sources:
https://www.tracesofwar.nl/sights/18894/Crash-Site-en-Wrak-Junker-Ju-88-Bommenwerper-Silverburn.htm
https://www.tracesofwar.nl/sights/18896/Monument-Junker-Ju-88-Bommenwerper-Silverburn.htm
http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co.uk/junkers-ju88_hare-hill.htm
https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/family-pays-respects-to-german-pilot-killed-in-historic-pentlands-plane-crash-1-4658299
http://edwardboyle.com/wreck32.html
http://www.peakdistrictaircrashes.co.uk/crash_sites/scotland/junkers-ju88-3ehm-hare-hill/
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 22-Jan-2015 19:06 | gerard57 | Added |
| 04-Oct-2016 09:48 | gerard57 | Updated [Registration, Location, Departure airport, Source] |
| 11-Jan-2018 06:44 | gerard57 | Updated [Source] |
| 11-Jan-2018 11:02 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Source, Narrative, Photo, ] |
| 11-Jan-2018 11:03 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Narrative] |
| 23-Mar-2018 15:00 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Phase, Departure airport, Narrative] |
| 11-Dec-2019 16:58 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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