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The Mechelen incident of 10 January 1940, also known as the Mechelen affair, took place in Belgium during the Phoney War in the first stages of World War II. A German aircraft with an officer on board carrying the plans for Fall Gelb (Case Yellow), the German attack on the Low Countries, crash-landed in neutral Belgium near Vucht in the modern ...
[8] [9] The Allies lost 305 aircraft destroyed and 190 aircraft damaged. [10] A further 15 Allied aircraft were shot down and ten damaged. A further six were downed by other causes. [11] Manrho and Pütz have also deduced that only 17 German aircraft are certain to have been shot down by German Flak. Even if aircraft with unknown fates are ...
Four German pilots (two wounded) made it back to German-held territory, while four were captured and the remaining twenty were killed. [85] Some 24 of the Bf 109s and Fw 190s lost were lost over enemy lines. [86] German pilots Günther Specht and Horst-Günther von Fassong were among those German pilots killed. [87]
Tarrant Tabor F1765 after its crash in 1919. ... Aviation accidents in Japan involving U.S. military and government aircraft post-World War II
(Previous German aircraft had been downed during World War II, but in Scotland.) Luftwaffe observer Peter Leushake on the He 111 killed by gunnery, gunner and flight engineer Johann Meyer, gunner Unteroffizier Karl Missy both wounded. [4] 7 February First Finnish loss of a Fiat G.50 Freccia occurs when FA-8 is destroyed in an accident. Sergeant ...
Nine crew members of a Flying Fortress based at Sioux City, were killed when the plane crashed and burned on a farm near here late today. Persons within a radius of several miles said they saw the plane explode and crash." [179] B-17F-40-VE, 42-6013, of the 393d CCTS, piloted by Frank R. Hilford, appears to be the airframe involved. [180] 2 January
This list covers aircraft of the German Luftwaffe during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. Numerical designations are largely within the RLM designation system.. The Luftwaffe officially existed from 1933–1945 but training had started in the 1920s, before the Nazi seizure of power, and many aircraft made in the inter-war years were used during World War II.
They claimed 186 Luftwaffe aircraft - more than four times the Germans' actual losses of 35–38 aircraft. Sixty B-17s were lost, two damaged beyond repair and 13 damaged; casualties amounted to five KIA, 40 WIA and 594 MIA. USAAF map of the withdrawal from Schweinfurt. The bomber formations were spread out and vulnerable because of bad weather.