ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 238240
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Date: | Tuesday 27 February 1945 |
Time: | 14:18 LT |
Type: | Consolidated B-24-J-20-FO Liberator |
Owner/operator: | USAAF |
Registration: | 44-48775 |
MSN: | 47 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 11 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
Location: | Altenrhein -
Switzerland
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | San Giovanni |
Destination airport: | San Giovanni |
Narrative:Emergency landing in a field after being hit by flak. All crew-members escaped. The aircraft was repaired and flown to Dübendorf. On this flight the aircraft was again shot by Swiss flak and sustained damages. The Liberator was finally flown back to UK on the 19th of September 1945.
Sources:
https://warbird.ch/wb-events/schweizer-piloten-von-schweizer-flab-beschossen/ Revision history:
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