ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 20570
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| Date: | Saturday 4 December 1943 |
| Time: | 17:00 LT |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-5 |
| Owner/operator: | 5./JG 3 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 15943 |
| MSN: | schwarze 11 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Location: | Bleiswijk, Zuid-Holland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Volkel airfield (NL) |
Shot down by a USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt fighter. In the afternoon, RAF Typhoons and USAAF Thunderbolts carried out a fighter sweep over the Netherlands. The pilot parachuted to safety and the Bf 109 crashed in a field. The wreckage was recovered in 1978 and is being restored at Vliegend Museum Seppe (EHSE).
Feindflug (operational sortie).
Pilot:
Flugzeugführer Uffz. K. Soszdorf Luftwaffe
Sources:
Vliegend Museum Seppe
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3184&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd'
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 29 September 1944 | 166019 | 2./JG 76 Luftwaffe | 1 | near Arnhem, Gelderland | |
w/o |
Images:
(c) H.Ranter, Seppe (EHSE), 3 NOV 2007
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 04-Jun-2008 11:03 | harro | Added |
| 01-Dec-2018 15:27 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 27-Mar-2020 10:31 | DB | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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