This is apparent from the first research findings of the Bunker Museum in Egmond aan Zee. The wreck is probably a Halifax bomber with possibly seven young pilots on board, explains Martijn Visser of the Bunker Museum. Last week, parts of the plane wreckage washed up on the beach by storm Eunice. Martijn Visser: „It gave me goosebumps when I got my hands on this tangible piece from the war. These hull pieces almost certainly come from a seafarer’s grave of young boys who gave their lives for our freedom.” According to Visser, there is two hard evidence that it is a war plane: “On a holder of electric cables is a crown with the letters AM below it, which stand for Air Ministry, a special British department that was responsible for the execution of the bombings. We also see recesses in the debris for round windows, which were almost exclusively in Halifax bombers.”
The Halifax Bomber.
Ⓒ Photo ANP/HH
The finder is Marco Snijders, who works for a company that keeps the beaches clean. He soon saw that it was something special. “We’ve found things like this, even torpedoes, before.”
The Bunker Museum hopes to eventually be able to find out which aircraft it was.