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Bf 110G-4 serial number 440141 shot down in the North Sea
off the Danish West coast 17/8 1944.
The aircraft belonged to 2./ NJG 3 and was coded D5+BK.
T/o Schleswig Jagel. Op: Operational flight.
The Bf 110G-4 with the crew of Pilot Unteroffizier Josef Armsdorfer, Wop
Gefreiter Erich Wilhelm Warnken and Engineer Obergefreiter Otto Romahn was on a
operational flight when it was picked up on radar by Mosquito HR213 coded TW-G
of RAF 141 Squadron. The crew of the Mosquito were Pilot W/O E. A. Lampkin and
Navigator/ Radar operator Flt. Sgt. B. J. Wallnutt.
They report: Patrolled over Denmark. At 15.000 ft at 02:28 hrs A.I. contact over
Ringkobing. Contact showed E/A at about 10.000 ft.
Dived, closed in for visual contact. Identified Messerschmitt Me 110 with long
range tanks under each wing.
Mossie dropped back 150 yards astern. Messerschmitt fired cluster ( 4 or5) red
stars. Mossie fired and strikes were observed.
Explosion followed on port side and port wing seen to cramble up and split in
the middle. Sheet of flame came back which Mossie flew through.
Then whole aircraft blew up and was observed burning on ground. Combat took
place after 12 minute chase on 330 degrees Ringkobing area at 12.000 feet.
The dead body of Obergefreiter Otto Romahn was found washed ashore on 22/8
and was laid to rest in Fovrfelt cemetery in Esbjerg on 24/8 1944.
Unteroffizier Josef Armsdorfer and Gefreiter Erich Wilhelm Warnken has no known
graves.
(Josef Kriegseisen)
Unteroffizier Josef Armsdorfer
(Josef Kriegseisen)
(Josef Kriegseisen)
Sources: WASt, BA, Combat report 141 Sqn.
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