ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 53883
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Date: | Saturday 13 July 1940 |
Time: | 18:53 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109E |
Owner/operator: | 9./JG 51 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | English Channel south of Dover, Kent, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Saint-Omer/Nord airfield (F) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative: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 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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