ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53883
Last updated: 29 July 2020
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| Date: | 13-JUL-1940 |
| Time: | 18:53 LT |
| Type: |  Messerschmitt Bf 109E |
| Owner/operator: | 9./JG 51 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | |
| C/n / msn: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | English Channel south of Dover, Kent, England -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Saint-Omer/Nord airfield (F) |
The aircraft crashed due to aerial combat with Spitfires.
The pilot, Oberleutnant Joachim Lange, did not survive. His body washed up near Valkenburg (Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands) on the 16th of August 1940.
Feindflug (operational sortie).
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T0749C&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
GQM (#1-2); BoB T&N, s.539
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Jagdgeschwader/Inhalt.htm
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2008 11:45 | ASN archive | Added |
| 10-Jul-2019 15:38 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 10-Jul-2019 15:39 | TigerTimon | Updated [Country] |
| 28-Jan-2020 11:08 | stehlik49 | Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Operator] |
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