ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 50881
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Date: | Monday 21 February 1944 |
Time: | 15:25 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-6 |
Owner/operator: | Stab III./JG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 410569 |
MSN: | weisse 22 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Greutelseweg, Wenum-Wiesel, Gelderland -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Volkel airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft was shot down in aerial combat with the USAAF.
The pilot, Leutnant H. Müller, did not survive and was buried at Arnhem.
Feindflug (operational sortie).
21 February was the second day of Operation Argument AKA the 'Big Week' offensive.
On this day, the USAAF raided the following airfields:
- Fliegerhorst Achmer, Niedersachsen
- Fliegerhorst Diepholz, Niedersachsen
- Fliegerhorst Quakenbrück, Niedersachsen
- Einsatzhafen Ahlhorn, Niedersachsen
- Einsatzhafen Hesepe, Niedersachsen
- Einsatzhafen Vörden, Niedersachsen
- Fliegerhorst Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Hopsten, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Lippstadt, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Münster-Handorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Rheine, Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Fliegerhorst Werl, Nordrhein-Westfalen
In addition, aircraft industry (at Braunschweig, Hannover and Lingen (Niedersachsen)) and marshalling yards (at Coevorden (Drenthe, the Netherlands) and Lingen (Niedersachsen, Germany)) were bombed.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3445&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= http://www.americanairmuseum.com/mission/1636
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
15-Feb-2019 20:27 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
10-Dec-2019 18:29 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
01-Jan-2020 19:59 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Operator] |
20-Jun-2022 22:57 |
Ron Averes |
Updated [Location] |
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