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Date: | Tuesday 7 September 1943 |
Time: | 00:30 LT |
Type: | Handley Page Halifax Mk II |
Owner/operator: | 77 Sqn RAF |
Registration: | JD405 |
MSN: | KN-Z |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Kaufering, Bayern -
Germany
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Elvington, Yorkshire |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Takeoff at 19:31 hrs local time for an operation to München in Bayern.
The aircraft was shot down by night fighter pilot Hauptmann Heinrich Wohlers of the Stab I./NJG 6, who was flying a Bf 110 G-4 from Mainz-Finthen airfield in Rheinland-Pfalz.
All seven crew members rest in the Durnbach War Cemetery.
Sources:
Nachtjagd Combat Archive 1943 part two
http://www.aircrewremembered.com/AlliedLossesIncidents/?q=JD405 Google Maps
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
11-Aug-2020 18:43 |
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