An Impossible Task?

[Jock Auld]

Guys,

I have been back to the farm that is in Hagen, just North of Bergen by Celle. The people are very nice and have been as helpful as possible. Sadly the people that would have had the detail have sinced passed away and the eyewitneses that are left were only young kids. All I could get was 1942 or 43, 2 engine night fighter that crash landed in the dark only the pilot in the plane with either a broken leg or broken arm. About 4 m2 of the site remains and it was all above the ground so I presume being early in the war the wreck was recovered and recycled. I will try the local archives in the Stadt Bergen, maybe something in the newspapers at the time but then again maybe not since it is not an enemy aircraft. None of the family took any pictures or souvineres so I think lost to the ages!

Jock

[Delmenhorst]

05.56 o'clock on the night between the 30th and 31st of August, 1943, Bf 110G-4 Werk Nr 6276 coded D5+GS crashlanded due to lack of petrol 2 km North of Bergen near Celle. The aircraft was on a Feindflug (operational sortie).
Feldwebel Werner Drobeck and Uffz Wilhelm Richter were wounded.