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| Date: | Wednesday 4 September 1940 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-4 |
| Owner/operator: | 3./JG 54 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 5026 |
| MSN: | gelbe 7 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | off Schouwen-Duiveland; Zeeland -
 Netherlands
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Campagne-lès-Guînes airfield, France |
The aircraft was ditched into the North Sea following aerial combat, while engaged in a Feindflug (operational sortie).
Oberleutnant A. Witt did not survive; he washed up at Haamstede on 26 September. He rests at Ysselsteyn cemetery in Limburg.
Sources:
GQM (#2-3); Mason, page 350; BoB T&N, page 620
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0815B&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20France.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Sep-2020 17:09 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 17-Sep-2020 17:10 | TigerTimon | Updated [Phase, ] |
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