Messerschmitt Bf 109 F-4 Tsiengalasjärvi, Utsjoki Finland

9./III./JG 5 Uffz.Klaus Betz (missing) WNr.7108 NE+ML 09.11 1942

The Messerschmitt was on a transfer flight from Rovaniemi to Petsamo when it got engine problems.
Uffz. Klaus Betz had to make a forced landing on the frozen lake.

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Uffz. Betz was reported missing. In 1948 remains of the German pilot was found some six kilometers east of the crash site.

In 2010 this wreck is on display at the Arena Hall in Jämijärvi, Finland.

1971 © hannu valtonen