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Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
Time: | 03:15 claim |
Type: | Avro Lancaster Mk III |
Owner/operator: | 9 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | W5010 |
MSN: | WS-L |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Stendal, Sachsen-Anhalt -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Bardney, Lincolnshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:48 hrs for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Sachsen.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Feldwebel Josef Handing of the 10./NJG 5 (based at Brandis airfield in Sachsen), who was flying Bf 110 G-4 C9+EU.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=W5010 Google Maps
http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Nachtjagdgeschwader/NJG5.htm Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Dec-2019 20:10 |
TigerTimon |
Added |
27-Dec-2019 20:28 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
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