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Date: | Tuesday 7 September 1943 |
Time: | 00:22 LT |
Type: | Dornier Do 217J |
Owner/operator: | 6./NJG 101 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 1365 |
MSN: | G3+EV |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Landsberg am Lech, Bayern -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Lechfeld airfield (Bayern) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:46 hrs for a Feindflug (operational sortie) against the RAF Bomber Command München raid.
During an attack, the Dornier flew into debris from an exploding bomber. The crew all evacuated the aircraft by parachute:
(FF) Oblt. Hans Krause / Staffelkapitän 6./NJG 101
(Bm) Fw. Otto Specht / injured
(Bf) Fw. Friedrich Zinn / injured
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
RL 2 III/776, 129; Balss, MV, page 206
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Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
12-Aug-2020 19:38 |
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