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A familymember indicate it might have been late summer 44. This is because the owner of the ground where the plane crashed claimed and received compensation for damage to his crops, which would normally be harvested late summer/early fall.
The story say that the pilot landed on a field close by the road, a local came by on his bicycle and the pilot requested the use of the bicycle, and instructed the local to tell all the youngsters that came from the nearby school not to touch the parachute, as someone would return for it.

Then another witness living at another part of the Harøy Island says he saw an airplane crashing into the ocean, did not see a parachute and cannot recall if any smoke or fire from the plane. However, he heard the engine misfiring. and he clearly remembering to have been gathering hay when this happend, indicating late last half of july 1944.
Sofar these two crashes have been considered as two different incidents, taking part on differnt occasions. But might have happened on the same day - if so most likely last half of july 1944.