I have been lucky ccheese,
since moveing to Norway I have also been to two RAF crash sites only 1/2 hour from my home.
One was a Sunderland shot down by an ME110, the other was a Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, both went down in 1940. The Sunderland had 10 crew on board, 9 died, the wireless Op. came out without a parachute when the aircraft broke up at 1000 meters. Sgt. George fell through trees and landed in snow, rescued by norwegians, he was in hospital then a POW and went on to live through the war into the 80s visiting his rescuers here Norway a number of times.
In 1950 a norwegian; Mr Erling Strangebye, was visiting Bremen, Germany and found a small silver cup in an antique shop. The cup had: 'Leutnant Lent, Fornebu 9-4-1940 Sunderland' engraved on it.... the ME110 pilot's cup for the shootdown. He bought the cup and kept it for many years until 1972 when he saw a program on TV about the Sunderland shootdown, they interviewed Mr George who was visiting Norway, Mr Strangebye contacted Mr George, met up with him in Oslo and presented the cup to him!
cheers,
-Flightpath