10./III./JG 5 Uffz.Oskar Bittner Yellow 8+ WNr.166120 15.11 1944
A "schwarm" (three planes) took off from Altagaard on a transfer flight to Bardufoss. They ran into bad weather and lost their navigation.
The pilot had problems over lake Sagelvvatnet, circled two times
around the lake before he decided to bail out. He landed straight in the lake
where he was rescued by two Norwegians and handed over to the Germans. Uffz.Bittner
was slightly wounded.
The Messerschmitt
crashed in a hillside above the farm Mosbergvik on the eastern side of the lake. The two other planes were also lost.
Oblt. Hans-Günther Heep and Ogfr. Georg Ecke bailed out too, their Messerschmitt's hit the ground in Swedish Lapland.
Left: Me holding a piece of metal with no. 166116 engraved.
Our local guide led us straight to the crash site. With out his help we never would have found it.
