Date: 28-May-2022
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CrashID | 401 |
Date | 04-Jun-1944 |
Time | Onbekend/Unknown |
Location | Wilhelminadorp |
Airplane | Heinkel |
Type / model | He 219A-0 |
Serial number | 190188 |
Registration number | G9+BL |
Group | Luftwaffe |
Squadron | 3./NJG 1 |
Base | Onbekend/Unknown |
Mission | Nachtjager |
Target | Vijandelijke toestellen |
Crew | Hptm Heinz Eicke Safe Oberfeldwebel Heinz Gall KIA |
Cemeteries | Oberfeldwebel Heinz Gall KIA. Hij is begraven te Ysselsteyn begraafplaats plaats BA.6.136. Hij werd 28 jaar. |
Brief description of the crash | The crew flew on a night target-simulation. After about 1 1/2 hrs flight time the aircraft was attacked from the rear. There had been no warning from either the Radarcontroller or the Wireless Operator. The left engine immediately burst into flames and could not be exstinguished. Pilot landed with his parachute and was not hurt, the W/O was found dead with his parachute not deployed about 500m from the crashsite. The airplane crashed 400m north of Wilhelminadorp. Probably shot down by Mosquito Night-fighter NF MkVIII HK248 of RAF 219 Sqn flown by Pilot Officers D. T. Tull & P. J. Cowgill. |
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