Heinkel He 111 H-3 Sitasjaure Sweden

5./II./KG 26 1H+DN WNr.2501 14.5 1940

On a mission to attack Allied ships in Narvik. The A/C was possibly attacked by P/O Jacobsen of 263 Sqdn in his Gloster Gladiator. The Heinkel made a successfull force landing on a frozen lake close to the Norwegian border. The crew walked back to Norway, but were captured by allied forces at Skjomen. They were all shipped to Canada and spent the rest of the war as PoWs.

The crew: Flugzeugfürer Uffz.Siegfried Blume. Beobachter Fw.Karl Grube. Bordfunker Uffz.Helmut Bennighoff. Bordmechaniker Uffz.Werner Wamser.