ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 234863
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Date: | Tuesday 14 October 1941 |
Time: | 05:49 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Hampden Mk I |
Owner/operator: | 50 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | AE251 |
MSN: | VN-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | south of Lommel, Limburg -
Belgium
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Swinderby, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Target - Köln, Germany.
Homeward-bound, the aircraft was coned by searchlights and attacked by the night fighter crew of Oberleutnant Reinhold Knacke & Unteroffizier Kurt Bundrock of the 2./NJG 1, who were flying a Bf 110 from Venlo airfield in the Netherlands. The four crew members were taken prisoner of war.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive The Early Years part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=AE251 Google Maps
History of this aircraft
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25 March 1942 |
AT158 |
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
07-Apr-2020 20:19 |
TigerTimon |
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