Need information about german pilot/Plane

[colletorww2]

Friday 9 Febuary 1945 a German plane was flying to Herdla airport and it got shot down and crashlanded on an island called Toska(Which just happens to be where i was born), the airplane got shot down by friendly fire from a fortress in the area and the pilot bailed out and was brought into the nearby town of Manger. The people thought he was British and tried speaking english to him, but he kept his mouth shut, they even asked the priest to talk to him, but he kept his mouth shut until the Germans came and picked him up. The next day, the Germans came and gathered the big parts of what was left of the plane.

An eyewitness i talked to said: "I was out working on the farm, when i hear cannons firing and i see tracers, even though it was in the middle of the day. The plane almost hit our farm and came down really low over the farm, until it crashed in a field. There was a big explosion and a part of the propellor landed next to a fence outside our home, i wanted to go get it, but it was during the war so i didn't dare".

In the 1980's they made a new road on the island and they removed the fence and probably a lot of parts. But even though my father and a lot of other people said "There is probably nothing left". I decided to look for parts after all, i got a permission from the woman that owns the field. And i started digging, the first couple days i detected in the bottom of the field and the only thing i was able to find were parts of an old barn the tore down. But one day when i was digging, a good friend of mine who saw the plane crash told me to search higher up, and boy did i hit the jackpot. I had found exactly where the plane crashed and in just 1 small hole i found 80 rounds, i also found a couple of 20mm rounds(Empty ones of course, most of the 20mm shells were destroyed, or badly damaged in the crash. I did find 2 intact explosive parts of the 20mm which i had to dump in the ocean).

I found the information about his squadron and other by looking through a luftwaffe losses register and showed that he was flying a FW-190 A-8. And that he was wounded, and as you have probably allready noticed i have talked to a couple eyewitnesses. But i don't have much information about the pilot and hoping you guys could help me.

Best Regards

Vegar

[Khorat]

maybe this one:
Mjoemna-Insel, 18km N Austerheim (GQM: nördl. Herdla)

12./JG5 9.2.1945
FW 190 A-8
Uffz. Herbert Schäfer wounded
shot down by own AA-fire

?

khorat

[colletorww2]

It sure is, do you have any more information about the pilot?

[Khorat]

will see tomorrow.

khorat

[Andreas Brekken]

Hi.

The loss record as follows:

http://www.ahs.no/ref_db/lw_loss_pub...?lossid=103653

I would advice you to get a hold of the book 'Den svarte fredagen' by Sperbund og Nordeide, http://www.selja.no/54_den-svarte-fr...ruar-1945.html , the most thorough source for the battle that brought an aircraft to rest in the field you have been searching.

A word of advice - all parts of german WWII aircraft wrecks in Norway are government property unless an agreement has been made with the relevant authorities for a specific recovery. Not that I believe that small parts like the ones you have been describing will be of major interest to the authorities, but the acts you describe is not excactly considered legal.

Regards,
Andreas B