Hello again.
FYI, I mostly live of turf growing, (I practically quit in the beef business) and a Flowermeadow- Blomsterenge- Blumenwiese is next on the market list. Nobody in the country has it yet and nobody in the business reads these threads
Hopefully the business will get good enough for me to see many an airshow, and buy myself a Spitfire Mk 26 in 2010. Actually not kidding
While the flowers grow I have to settle with smaller things, - but some are fun, - will be in Germany in September, and have a week for explorations. If Gunther Rall is at home, I will pop in for a cup of coffee, - if he is at home that is. (89 years and travels extensively to USA and UK to see old friends).
That was no kidding, just talked to him the other day.
And then to the LW in Norway.
This particular information of the escaping crew actually landed on me through my eye-doctor. He was studying in Munchen and making "praktikum" on a big hospital, when a patient approached him and asked him if he was an Icelander. He says "yes", and then got a first hand account on this event, - the patient was one of the crew. He had cancer and died shortly after. This was in the 1970's.
The doctor later went into exploring this, and being an outdoors person, and a cave explorer as well, managed to find parts of an aircraft on the site described as the crashing site. He went into research, like trying to find the docking logs in Heimaey from the time (Westman Islands), but they were gone. He was asking about, and was met with some coldness from the people he asked, so he stopped his research, but wrote an article about what he knew. (The German said to him: "I want to tell you something since you are an Icelander, because it happened to me and it is a part of your history")
It was published some 10 or even 15 years ago, but the mystery was never solved.
From here, there are no records of a retrived wreck. (The crew blew it up actually). And for the ack-weenies shooting off, that was many times. Those intruders from Norway made many many flights over here.
There are no harbour logs from the time for some reason. (Heimaey).
He told me that he had the feel from his research that he might be opening "old wounds", and therefore he stopped. There is a good possibility that he is right, - I do have accounts that marooned Germans were helped by the locals, - after the British/Americans came here. People felt sorry for young men being shunted to prison camps.
So, in short, there is a probability that they were "aided" to get away. "Here's the boat" (turns a blind eye)
I talked to a history professor who's field is WW2 up here, - he claims it's a myth. But I am more than ready to do some research and maybe go and see if I find some part of the wreck.
The touchy people that the doctor called at the time are now mostly dead.
So, time to go
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