Accident Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-2 120226,
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Date:Wednesday 19 August 1942
Time:day
Type:Silhouette image of generic fw19 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-2
Owner/operator:4./JG 2 Luftwaffe
Registration: 120226
MSN: weisse 12 + –
Fatalities:Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:English Channel near Dieppe, Seine-Maritime département -   France
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:Beaumont-le-Roger airfield
Destination airport:
Narrative:
Feindflug - operational sortie against Operation Jubilee.

Gefreiter S. Eimers did not survive and washed up 10 October in the Netherlands. Today, he rests in Ysselsteyn cemetery in Limburg.

Sources:

https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1779A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield=
Google Maps

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
17-Dec-2008 11:45 ASN archive Added
18-Aug-2017 19:23 TigerTimon Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Damage, Narrative]
02-May-2019 06:50 Nepa Updated [Operator, Operator]
18-May-2020 14:44 TigerTimon Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Source, Damage, Narrative]

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