ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50205
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Date: | Thursday 31 August 1944 |
Time: | 05:00 LT |
Type: | Heinkel He 111 H-16 |
Owner/operator: | 8./KG 3 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 161771 |
MSN: | 5K+BS |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Vossenberg area, Gilze, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Venlo airfield (NL) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Upon returning from a Feindflug (operational sortie), the aircraft crashed, on fire.
Heinkels of the III./KG 3 launched V-1 weapons over the North Sea in this period.
Crew:
Flugzeugführer Uffz. L. Gruber 67452/533 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn cemetery; CQ-5-103 - initially buried Tilburg
Beobachter Fw. K. Koch 65124/188 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn cemetery; CQ-5-104 - initially buried Tilburg
Bordfunker Uffz. N. Wiemers 67152/420 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn cemetery; CQ-5-101 - initially buried Tilburg
Bordschütze Uffz. E. Kauffeldt 58280/442 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn cemetery; CQ-5-102 - initially buried Tilburg
Bordschütze Gfr. E. Bahr 67452/448 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn cemetery; CQ-5-105 - initially buried Tilburg
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3964&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Google Maps
'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd'
Liste-RT (NVM; EH31KAA)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
9 July 1944 |
161306 |
8./KG 3 Luftwaffe |
5 |
Doudeville, Seine-Maritime, Normandie |
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w/o |
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
22-Jul-2019 10:05 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
22-Jul-2019 10:06 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |
24-Mar-2020 19:46 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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