Some forty years later, in the eighties, the Boee family got new neighbors across the street. Including another Willem: Willem van der Linden. From the moment he heard about what had happened here, he has not stopped delving into the war history of this area. “There was still a whole plane under the ground. I then called in help and was able to excavate the Short Stirling”, says the initiator of the monument.
Tribute to crashed plane Portengen: ‘Freedom is not obvious’
