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Date: | Tuesday 15 August 1944 |
Time: | 13:00 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6/U4 |
Owner/operator: | 6./JG 5 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 440051 |
MSN: | gelbe 12 + – |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Benderse, Ruinen, Drenthe -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Sachau airfield (G) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft was shot down in aerial combat. The pilot, Unteroffizier Ernst Thomas, bailed out at a height of 60 metres. His parachute did not open and he fell to his death. He now rests at Ysselsteyn cemetery, Limburg.
Feindflug (operational sortie). On this day, the USAAF raided several Luftwaffe airfields, according to Mission 554: 932 bombers and 443 fighters are dispatched to attack 11 airfields in NW Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium in conjunction with 1,000 Royal Air Force (RAF) heavy bombers and Mosquitos raiding 9 airfields in the Netherlands and Belgium; 16 bombers and 5 fighters are lost.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3935&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Girbig, JG 5, s.239; Liste-Ring; NL-Verl.Reg 1944
'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd' for airfield
https://me109.info/ Revision history:
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17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
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20-Jul-2019 18:04 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
20-Jul-2019 18:04 |
TigerTimon |
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27-Mar-2020 10:16 |
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