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| Date: | Sunday 14 January 1945 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 109 G |
| Owner/operator: | 10./JG 51 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | SE of Insterburg, East Prussia -
 Russia
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Shot down by fighter aircraft of the Red Army Air Force South-East of Insterburg, East Prussia*. The pilot Gefr. Wilhelm Peiter of Jagdgeschwader 51 was killed in action, and later buried in the Insterburg-Chernyakhovsk German War Cemetery.
*Now known as Chernyakhovsk in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
Sources:
https://aircrewremembered.com/KrackerDatabase/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 04-Apr-2025 13:41 | V.E | Added |
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