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| Date: | Tuesday 2 December 1941 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7 |
| Owner/operator: | 4./JS 3 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 6+ |
| MSN: | 2668 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Damtjonna in Surnadal area, 50km ESE Kristiansund -
 Norway
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
At least 3 aircraft of the Einsatzstaffel 4./Jagdschule 3 (also called Jagdgruppe Drontheim) were unable to find their way back to their base of Orlandet in a snow storm and ran out of fuel. Two aircraft were lost but all pilots survived.
Uffz Heinz Niehaus bailed out from his Bf 109 E-7 WNr 2668 Weisse 6 and landed safely. His fighter crashed into a bog at Damtjønna in Surnadal area, 50km ESE Kristiansund. Uffz Niehaus walked down to Heggset.
Uffz Heinrich Niehaus later became the first casualty of the newly formed IV./JG 5. He crashed and got killed on a training flight near Elvenes on 7 July 1942. He is buried at Narvik Cemetery.
Sources:
http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/surnadal.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20120320130812/http://www.rafandluftwaffe.info/luftwaffe1.html (no more online)
http://www.luftwaffe.no/SIG/Losses/tap412.html (no more online)
https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damtj%C3%B8nna
https://www.flyvrak.info/halsa.html
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=62.800000&lon=9.889000&z=11&m=b
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 28-Feb-2018 14:56 | Laurent Rizzotti | Added |
| 14-Dec-2019 21:33 | Nepa | Updated [Operator, Operator, ] |
| 16-Jun-2024 07:42 | MMR | Updated [Registration, Cn, Source, ] |
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