The only Spitfire to crash in Sweden during WW2

The following is a condensed translation of an article by Bengt Hermansson, in the Svensk Flyghistorisk Tidskrift 3/03:
On August 4, 1942 Spitfire PR Mk IV AB314 of 1 PRU came down in Funäsdalen, northern Sweden. The pilot, P/O Whitaker had been on a photo reconnaissance mission from Wick to Åsenfjord north of Trondheim, searching for the Tirpitz. Hit by heavy German flak, the Spitfire was severely damaged and unable to make it back to base. Whitaker baled out and while descending tried to set fire to his map, but the parachute caught fire too. He thought he was over Norway and wanted to destroy the evidence of his route.
Landing safely, Whitaker soon found himself under Swedish military guard, the local commander being HRH Prince Carl-Johan himself! During interrogation they found that they knew each other and embraced! It seems that they had both attended the same school, somewhere in the UK. He was sent to Falun to be interned, and was repatriated on 5 April 1943. P/O Whitaker was later killed over France in May 1944.
This was the only Spitfire to crash in Sweden during the war. The wreckage was stripped by local people to the extent that a technical examination was hindered. The remains were taken to F4 at Frösön for examination and later sold as scrap.

From the Museum booklet:
“. . . saw service in Germany and India. It then returned to Britain and was then sold to Canada where it became available to the museum, albeit in a state of disrepair. After a series of aircraft exchanges, the Air Force Museum Trust was able to bring the Spitfire to Sweden . . . officially handed over to the museum on 20th March 1989. Sölve Fasth led the research project whilst Kurt Zetterholm was responsible for the restoration work . . . The aircraft . . . on display did not serve in the Swedish Air Force. It is, however, an example of the same version as those that did.”