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Old 6th June 2007, 13:09
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Re: why no me 110s? found

Not from Russia, but retrieved from the lake Upmasjaure in Sweden, Bf 110 D-0, W.Nr. 3154, NO+DS, in 1995. The remains are now in Technik Museum Speyer, Sinsheim.

It is not 100% clear how the aircraft ended up in the lake even if parts of the events have been revealed through research in later years.
It is believed the aircraft, belonging to 2./ZG 76, landed on the ice 24.05.1940 after having started from Trondheim/Vaernes, Norway, to escort a Ju 52/3m with paratroopers to Narvik.
It is assumed it was damaged in a fight with RAF Gladiators and forced to make a belly landing on the frozen lake in Sweden.
On the 26:th a He 59 (D-ALYO) from Seenotflugkommando 1 in Trondheim landed on the ice and rescued the crew from Swedish territory, bringing Fw Neureiter and Stabsing. Thönes back to Trondheim!
The wreck was not found until 1946 after it had sunk into the lake.
Source:
Tyska Nödlandare 1939-1945, P. 35, Bo Widfeldt, Air Historic Research, 2007.

Descriptions of this event can also be found in Mr Widfeldt’s earlier works on aircraft landing in Sweden during WW2 - Also in his only book in English on the subject of German landings, “The Luftwaffe in Sweden 1939-1945”, Monogram, 1983. Later research has however added to, and also changed, the descriptions of the events as described in his earlier book.

Picture of remains at:

http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Luftwaffe/messerschmitt/me110.htm
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