ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 52240
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Date: | Wednesday 15 March 1944 |
Time: | 00:20 LT |
Type: | Dornier Do 217 M-1 |
Owner/operator: | 3./KG 2 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 326252 |
MSN: | U5+AL |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | behind the house at Locht 44, Veldhoven, Noord-Brabant -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Eindhoven airfield (NL) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Squadron Leader M. Negus of 605 Squadron RAF, who was flying a Mosquito FB Mk VI.
The Luftwaffe crew was initially buried at Eindhoven-Woensel cemetery.
Less than a month later, Negus would be killed too, on an Intruder operation to the Bodensee lake, Germany. See link no. 4 in the source description.
Feindflug (operational sortie). On the night of 14/15 March 1944, the Luftwaffe raided London as part of Operation Steinbock.
Crew:
Flugzeugführer Lt. J. Ott 57359/540 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn AA-3-68
Beobachter Uffz. G. Renziehausen 57359/552 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn AA-3-69
Bordfunker Uffz. H. Claas 57359/390 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn AA-3-70
Bordschütze Ogfr. H. Stark 57357/237 Luftwaffe Ysselsteyn AA-3-71
Sources:
1.
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T3528&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Steinbock 3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._605_Squadron_RAF 4.
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=148807
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
12-Mar-2019 18:21 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
27-Mar-2020 09:07 |
DB |
Updated [Departure airport, Operator] |
27-Mar-2020 09:07 |
DB |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
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