Branse Burbridge
Air victories

Branse Burbridge

Section Title: Air victories
Table Section Text: None

Chronicle of aerial victories

Can be identified with certainty

Claim No.	Date	Location and Time	Enemy aircraft	Notes

1.	22 Feb 1944	Off Dungeness at 00:45	Me 410	In the early hours of 22 February 1944 Me 410 U5+CE, Werknummer (WrkNr—Work Number) 20463, from 14./Kampfgeschwader 2 (Bomber Wing 2).

2—3	25 March 1944	Off Dover at 00:20 Off Dover at 00:52	Do 217 Ju 88	Some 17 intruder aircraft were lost on this night according to detailed German records—10 were Ju 88s and five were Do 217s.

4	19 April 1944	Off Sandgate at 01:33	Ju 188	Detailed German records indicate that 18 aircraft were lost on this night. Four were Ju 188s and nine were similar Ju 88s.

5	26 April 1944	Portsmouth at 05:07	Me 410	Six German aircraft fell this night. Two were Me 410s.

6	15 June 1944	Ju 188	Claimed south-west of Nivelles. Although claimed as a Ju 188 it was in fact a similar Ju 88G-1.

7	23 June 1944	Ju 88	Over English Channel.

8	11/12 September 1944	Baltic Sea	Ju 188	The Ju 88G-1 Werk Nr 710579 of 6./NJG 3 was flown by Unteroffizier Gerhard Schmitz. The Ju 88 crashed on a farm near Hojme, west of Odense, Denmark.

9—10	15 October 1944	Gütersloh airfield	Two Ju 88s	One of his victims was a Ju 88G-1 of Stab (Command staffel) III./Nachtjagdgeschwader 2. Leutnant Ernst Hoevermann and crew killed.

11	19 October 1944	Near Metz	Ju 188	Details unknown. Ju 88G-1, Werk Nr 714453, 2Z+EP, from 6./NJG 6, was lost nearby.

12—15	5 November 1944	30 miles south of Bonn 5 miles south east of Bonn north of Hangelar.	Three Ju 88s Bf 110	Two of his victims were Bf 110s, and misidentified as Ju 88s. One, belonging to 6 staffel (Squadron) II./Nachtjagdgeschwader 1, crashed into the River Rhine, north of Hangelar airfield.

16—17	22 November 1944	South of Mannheim	Ju 88 Bf 110	Unknown details. This night Feldwebel Walter Schneider of 3./NJG 6 was killed nearby at Bönnigheim.

18—19	13 December 1944	Two miles west of Essen.	Ju 88 Bf 110	A Ju 88, Wrk Nr 714530 of 6./NJG 4, was identified as a victim. Pilot Unteroffizier Heinrich Brune, radio operator Emil Hoffharth and gunner Wolfgang Rautert were killed.

20	23 December 1944	Near Koblenz.	Bf 110	Loss unknown. Pilots from Nachtjagdgeschwader 5, 4 and 6 were operating this night—crews from NJG 5 and 6 made claims.

21	2/3 January 1945	15 miles south-west of Ludwigshafen	Ju 88	Details unknown. Oberleutnant Jacobs crashed nearby at Odenheim.

Sentence(s)

Burbridgen claimed Ju 188 near Metz.

final_sentence: Burbridgen claimed Ju 188 near Metz.