ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 66105
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| Date: | Thursday 2 December 1943 |
| Time: | morning |
| Type: |  Junkers Ju 188 E-1 |
| Owner/operator: | 1./KG 6 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 260168 |
| MSN: | 3E+EH |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Location: | South of Beachy Head -
 United Kingdom
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Chièvres airfield, Belgium |
| Feindflug - operational sortie - London |
shot down by RAF 181 Sqn Flt Sgt Kenneth "Chad" Hanna/RCAF at sea south to Beachy
Head area. At that time mistaken for a Do217 by Hanna. He claimed to have seen right
engine smoking after gun use, aircraft then disappeared into clouds. Aircraft prior incident probably jettisoned 2 unexploding 1000kg H.E.bombs at 10:45AM on "ploughed land near Lewes at
Ashcombe" Farm (Farmer Mr. Howell), about 150 yards southwest from the Grand Stand and
100 yards from the nearest building (Parish of St.Ann Without,Map Reference
828297)
take off: I./KG6 air base Chievres/BE.
MIA:
Flugzeugführer Alfred Popp, 24.02.1920
Kampfbeobachter Ewald Scherff, 16.06.1920
Bordfunker Manfred Forst, geb. 04.04.1921
Bordschütze Helmut Kunze, geb. 29.04.1920
Sources:
http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20Belgium%20and%20Luxembourg.pdf
GQM (#12-24); Horn, KG6, page 262
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 02-Jul-2009 15:25 | scherffi | Added |
| 14-Aug-2010 02:45 | Anon. | Updated [Country, Narrative] |
| 30-Nov-2018 12:26 | TigerTimon | Updated [Aircraft type, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Apr-2021 10:16 | TigerTimon | Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Phase, Destination airport, Source] |
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