Please help me find Bergen area museum

I understand there is a village museum in the Bergen area with remains of a Skua which crashed into a mountainside on 13 September 1940. I believe my uncle was the pilot. Would be grateful if anyone can give me any information. Celia Johnson

You can start here:

http://www.bymuseet.no/?spr=en

Here are some info on the crash:

Skua 13.09.1940

and some other photos from the site.

Prior salvage attempt
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area surrounding crash site
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Airplane wreck 1
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Airplane wreck 2
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Closeup of cocpit part

Tore - Thank you very much for the information re my uncle, Edward Harwin. I can now pass on this info to his sister and maybe visit the area in Norway in the not too distant future. Celia.

http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/andvik.html

In case you would like to have digital copies of the photos, let me know.

Were the victims put in graves localy, below the crash site?
On the picture "Airplane wreck 2" it looks like a grave, where the person to the right puts on more turf and the one to the left places a cross or something smiliar. That would be strange, but maybe the terrain and location made this more practical??

The Germans buried the bodies in the vincinities of the wreck. The local population resented this, the bodies not buried in sacred earth an dug the bodies up and transferred them to the local cemetry where they were given a christian burial. After the war, the bodies of very many allied servicemen were sentralised to a fewer number of cemeteries, and thus their bodies were transferred to a graveyard at Haugesund.

See my link to this page: http://ktsorens.tihlde.org/flyvrak/andvik.html

Then I guess they are two of these.
Atle

If this is Rossbø cemetary at Haugesund, they lies in that graves.

Yes sorry, this is Rossabø, the commonwealth graves. Close by is also the grave of a soviet POW that died not far away.

There is an organization photographing gravestones:

http://www.disnorge.no/gravminner/index.php

Up til now, more than 2 000 000 gravstones are registered and by choosing Village/city, graveyard and name, you will find the grave stone.

Iin July only, 17 graveyards were registered.

This is an excellent site. We started this localy in Tananger in the mid 1990's and got a great response, especially from the US. DIS-Norge has taken the stick and run with it. A great result that I have used a lot in my own research. Here one can get information that is closed in other archives. Good stuff. Keep up the good work!!

Hello Celia
The local museum is The Bjørn West Museum in Matre, in Masfjorden. Here you find some parts of the plane and photos. See bjornwest.no.
Regards Arne Berg

Anybody knows if the wreck is still in Svartadalen, or has it been stripped down? It's not that far from where I live but I don't want to lose a day checking... and it's in the asshole of Norway, not much people to ask to, but I'll throw a mail to Bjørn West Museum...

And by the way, there is a svartadalen in Andvik but it doesnt fit with the stories told and the landscape (waterfall nearby etc). To place the place on the map it's apparently on the north, steep sude of Øvredalen east of Storvatnet (the bggest one, because here again there is 2 in Andvik).

If Svartadalen is also the name given by the locals to this upper-valleys, it's anyways not written down on maps.