ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 266136
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| Date: | Tuesday 12 December 1944 |
| Time: | 20:20 LT |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 |
| Owner/operator: | 2./NJG 11 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 166455 |
| MSN: | rote 4 + |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Grünberg (near), Hessen -
 Germany
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Biblis airfield |
Takeoff at +/- 19:00 hrs for a Feindflug (operational sortie). On this evening, RAF Bomber Command raided Essen.
Leutnant Mohr was injured by return fire from 12 Squadron Lancaster ND342 and, attempting to limp back to his home base Biblis, was forced to bale out at Grünberg, east of Giessen. He subsequently recorded in his Flugbuch about his 34th and final Einsatz: ‘Wilde Sau Essen-Duisburg. Abschuss 4-mot, engine fire, baled out by parachute at Garbenteich near Giessen 20.20’.
Garbenteich belongs to Pohlheim.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part five
Balss, Personalverluste; summ.VLM (855, 19.12.44, 20)
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 30-Jul-2021 19:27 | TigerTimon | Added |
| 30-Jul-2021 19:29 | TigerTimon | Updated [Narrative] |
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