From the local media in NL:
During his round on the beach at Vrouwenpolder, lifeguard Jasper Boeije found something very special on Wednesday morning: the remains of a Spitfire fighter plane.
At first, the employee of the Veere Beach Exploitation Foundation (SSV) thought that there was a seal along the tide line. He stopped his car to have a good look at the animal. Then he realized it wasn't a seal. What is it? That was not immediately clear. "I thought maybe it was a piece of rudder or something else from a ship."
He dragged his find to a beach post to hose it clean. Only then did he see that it might be an airplane wing. When he looked closely, he read the word "Spitfire" and realized that he was almost certainly dealing with the remains of a World War II fighter plane.
He then contacted Het Polderhuis museum in Westkapelle to find out what to do with that find. That brought him into contact with people from Wings to Victory, the museum about the air war over the southwest of the Netherlands. According to Jasper Boeije, they were very interested and also picked up the wing. According to the Middelburger, they will try to find out which aircraft it is and who the pilot was. If it turns out that the pilot is still missing, they can tell relatives what may have happened.
Progress was reported on the identification of the pilot.
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