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Date: | Saturday 17 May 1941 |
Time: | 18:10 LT |
Type: | Hawker Hurricane Mk IIB |
Owner/operator: | 71 (Eagle) Sqn RAF |
Registration: | Z3186 |
MSN: | XR-? |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | North Sea off Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England -
United Kingdom
|
Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | RAF Martlesham Heath, Suffolk |
Destination airport: | RAF Martlesham Heath |
Narrative:Interception. The aircraft was shot down by Hauptmann Heinz Bretnütz of the Stab II./JG 53, who was flying a Bf 109 F-2 from Arques airfield, France.
The pilot, P/O. S.M. Kolendorski, is buried at Rockanje (Zuid-Holland, the Netherlands). His lifeless body washed ashore on the 13th of August 1941.
Sources:
https://verliesregister.studiegroepluchtoorlog.nl/rs.php?aircraft=&sglo=T1035A&date=&location=&pn=&unit=&name=&cemetry=&airforce=&target=&area=&airfield= Fighter Command Losses of the Second World War Volume 1 Page 117.
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http://ww2.dk/Airfields%20-%20France.pdf Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
17-Dec-2008 11:45 |
ASN archive |
Added |
06-Jan-2012 09:11 |
Nepa |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Total occupants, Phase] |
09-Apr-2016 18:30 |
Red Dragon |
Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-May-2019 07:05 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Time, Location, Source, Narrative] |
16-May-2019 15:32 |
TigerTimon |
Updated [Narrative] |
19-Mar-2021 17:57 |
Nepa |
Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Operator] |
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