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Date: | Wednesday 23 June 1943 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Dornier Do 217 N-1 |
Owner/operator: | 4./NJG 3 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 1422 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Westerland/Sylt airfield, Schleswig-Holstein -
Germany
|
Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Westerland/Sylt airfield (G) |
Destination airport: | Westerland/Sylt airfield |
Narrative:Bruchlandung inf. Motorstörung (crash landing due to engine trouble).
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this night, the Royal Air Force sent 52 aircraft to the German shipping convoy lanes off the Frisian islands to lay magnetic mines.
Damage: 45%
Sources:
Luftwaffe Losses by Michael Balss
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
13-Apr-2019 07:59 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
24-Mar-2020 15:04 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |