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Date: | Friday 28 January 1944 |
Time: | 12:40 LT |
Type: | Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-7 |
Owner/operator: | 2./JG 105 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 5360 |
MSN: | 7 + |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Pierres, Eure-et-Loir 28 -
France
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Chartres airfield |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:F/Lt. Burroughs and F/Lt. Wonnacott of 414 Squadron RCAF flying Mustang Mk I aircraft on a "Ranger" mission, shot the Messerschmitt down while it engaged in a shooting exercise.
Unteroffizier Heinrich Riess did not survive.
Sources:
GQM-Schulen (Michael Balss); List of mr. Ring; VDK; gun camera films
Google Maps
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