ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 242537
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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 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | off Schouwen-Duiveland; Zeeland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Campagne-lès-Guînes airfield, France |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative: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
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
5 November 1943 |
27050 |
6./JG 2 Luftwaffe |
0 |
Stramproy, Limburg |
|
w/o |
5 November 1943 |
15949 |
III./JG 26 Luftwaffe |
0 |
Tilburg - 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord-Brabant |
|
sub |
19 September 1944 |
781309 |
6./JG 11 Luftwaffe |
1 |
Exel, Lochem; road between Lochem and Laren, Gelderland |
|
w/o |
1 January 1945 |
783846 |
1./JG 3 Luftwaffe |
0 |
near the Gordenaars road at Batenburg, Gelderland |
|
w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Sep-2020 17:09 |
TigerTimon |
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17-Sep-2020 17:10 |
TigerTimon |
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