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Date: | Sunday 20 February 1944 |
Time: | 03:17 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk V |
Owner/operator: | 431 (Iroquois) Sqn RCAF |
Registration: | LK905 |
MSN: | SE-D |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Ziepel, Gardelegen, Sachsen-Anhalt -
Germany
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Croft, North Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 23:21 hrs for an operation against aircraft assembly factories at Leipzig in Sachsen.
Outward-bound, the aircraft was shot down by a Bf 110 G-4 night fighter, either flown by
Oberleutnant Josef Kraft of the 4./NJG 5 (based at Parchim airfield in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern)
or by
Oberleutnant Paul Zorner of the 8./NJG 3, who was flying D5+FS from Lüneburg airfield in Niedersachsen.
For the crew, see Aircrew Remembered.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1944 part one
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=LK905 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Dec-2019 20:32 |
TigerTimon |
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