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Date: | Wednesday 17 September 1941 |
Time: | 15:58 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-2 |
Owner/operator: | 3./JG 26 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 8294 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Calais-Marck airfield (2 km north of); Pas-de-Calais département -
France
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Saint-Omer - Clairmarais airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Leutnant Wolfgang Ruhdel did not survive in combat with Spitfires which were flying a Circus operation.
The damage to the aircraft was assessed as 99%.
Sources:
PV-JG26 (049); GQM (#4-6); Caldwell, JG26 War Diary, II, page 545
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