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Infamous Dutch scrap heap
Posted by Cees Broere on Fri Feb 01, 2002 03:50:10 AM
In reply top Re: Halifax in the Ijsselmeer..4 Cees.. posted by Paul McMillan on Thu Jan 31, 2002 11:39:23 AM
Hello Paul,
No it doesn't physically exist. The Air Force clears out their storage area every year. Everything that has recovered the previous year will go for scrap.
Luckily we have some reasonable contacts there and now and again we get some interesting bits and pieces. For instance some years ago we got the complete tailfin of a Halifax which was recovered in one piece from the IJsselmeer. Unfortunately when we came to pick it up they had put it at the bottom of a container and had thrown in a radial engine on top of it. The fin was broken in two.
Cees