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Date: | Sunday 14 January 1945 |
Time: | 10:45 LT |
Type: | Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-9 |
Owner/operator: | 4./JG 1 Luftwaffe |
Registration: | 205226 |
MSN: | rote 4 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Scholtinkstraat 34-40, Losser, Overijssel -
Netherlands
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Twente airfield (NL) |
Destination airport: | Werneuchen airfield (G) |
Narrative:Under command of Major G. Capito, the I. Gruppe of Jagdgeschwader was ordered to the eastern front. The aircraft would have to fly to Werneuchen in Brandenburg first.
Due to fog, takeoff was delayed. Warning came in, that enemy fighter bombers were on their way.
However, when the weather cleared, some aircraft did take off, ignoring the warning. RCAF Supermarine Spitfires of the 401, 411 & 442 Squadrons dove onto the aircraft and took out a stunning number of eleven Focke-Wulfs.
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Rote 4 was shot down by F/Lt. R. Audet of 411 Squadron RCAF, who was flying a Spitfire LF Mk IX from B.88 Heesch airfield. Unteroffizier W.L. Kindhäuser did not survive and was buried at Enschede. He now rests at Ysselsteyn cemetery in Limburg; grave R-1-12.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T5110&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= http://www.luchtoorlogboventwente.nl/450114LUF.php Google Maps
book 'Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd'
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
12-Mar-2016 15:57 |
gerard57 |
Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
09-Dec-2019 16:52 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Operator] |
08-Jan-2020 13:58 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Other fatalities, Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
31-Jan-2020 22:59 |
stehlik49 |
Updated [Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
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