Our local guide led us straight to the crash site.
With out his help we never would have found it.
Me holding a piece of metal with No.166120 engraved on it.
The man in white t-shirt was working in the forest as a young boy, when the noisy aircraft smashed down in front of him. The engine was still running and there was no smoke or fire to be seen before it went down.
Our guide and Morten, standing right where the Messerscmitt went down 60 years ago.
Sagelvvatnet Balsfjord 26.July 2004
Me.Bf 109G-6 Sagelvvatnet Balsfjord
10./III./JG 5 Yellow 8+ Werknr.166120 Uffz.Oskar Bittner 15.11 1944
Flight from Alta to Bardufoss in heavy wind. 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 in this which was his second air crash. The Messerschmitt crashed in a hillside above the farm Mosbergvik on the eastern side of the lake.