Airwar over Denmark

Airwar over Denmark

 By Søren C. Flensted

Home

Allied:
1939-1940 Updated 19/10-24
1941 Updated 28/4-22
1942 Updated 14/7-24
1943 Updated 15/4-24
1944 Updated 20/11-24
1945 Updated 4/12-22


German:
1939
1940 New 30/11-23
1941 New 23/7-21
1942 Updated 24/7-24
1943 Updated 28/1-23
1944 Updated 23/7-23
1945 Updated 16/7-23

Books  New Book by Steve Smith
Sources
Contact
Links

Search this site by entering search words:



powered by FreeFind

Bf 110G-4 crashed in the sea of Skagerak 30/5 1943.


The aircraft belonged to 7./ NJG 3 and was coded D5+DR.
T/o Kastrup Op: Calibration flight for radar.


Pilot Unteroffizier Berg and crew member Oberfeldwebel Wirths took off from Fliegerhorst København – Kastrup at 14:05 hours for a calibration flight in the Skagerak for a radar station.
Wirths had his every day work as an Instructor at the Blindflugschule 4.

When the job was done they sighted an “English” fright ship and attacked this. The ship fired back with flak and the Bf 110 was hit and the engines stopped.

The aircraft was ditched in the Skagerak at 16:10 hours and the crew survived to be rescued after a long stay in the water. Oberfeldwebel Wirths was taken to the Lazarett Copenhagen where he stayed until 30/6.



Sources: Flugbuch Ofw Wirths via “Jet&Prop.
 

 

 

Back to 1943

Top of page
Top of page
 

 

  Copyright  ©  Søren C. Flensted 2004 - 2024