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Date: | Tuesday 20 February 1940 |
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Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 |
Owner/operator: | 1./JG 52 Luftwaffe |
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Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Hockenheim, Baden-Württemberg -
Germany
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Military |
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Narrative:During a training flight two Bf 109 E-1 of 1./JG 52 collided in the air south of Ludwigshafen. One crashed and burned near Hockenheim after its pilot had baled out unhurt. The other pilot managed to reach Lachen-Speyerdorf airfield and to crash-land here. He was also unhurt but his fighter was also wrecked.
Sources:
http://www.jg52.net/kriegstagebuch/1940/ “The Battle of France Then and Now”, by Peter D. Cornwell. ISBN 9-781870-067652
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hockenheim https://www.google.de/maps/search/49.318056,8.547222/@49.318056,8.547222,11120m/data=!4m2!2m1!4b1?dg=dbrw&newdg=1
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
01-Mar-2017 17:51 |
Laurent Rizzotti |
Added |
26-Jan-2020 16:58 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |