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Polish Spitfire War memorial at Dungeness looking for old propellers.

I have been meaning to post about the Polish Spitfire Memorial at Dungeness as some time ago it was sadly vandalised and then repaired and improved by a generous benefactor.

Full storey with pics begins here and is updated in following months.

http://www.dungeness.org.uk/2015/01/23/polish-memorial/

The Dungeness Estate has recently been sold to EDF, who own the nuclear power station, who within a matter of days were making improvements to the badly potholed roads, although the natural cynic in me sees this as a public relations exercise, but very welcome none the less. Whilst I do not know if the National Trust had been interested in purchasing the Dungeness Estate it is, IMHO, a great shame they did not.

Getting back to the memorial there are now plans to improve the memorial and the suggestion is to use two “propellers”, artist impression here,

http://www.dungeness.org.uk/2015/11/09/polish-airmens-memorial-proposal/

They appear to be considering making the “propellers” at some sizable cost and I was just wondering if there was anybody out there who had some old Spitfire propellers that were no…….. no just kidding, if somebody out there had some old blades that might do the job or are they all worth too much.

I wondered if DX had anything in mind for the Shackleton blades they cut off.:D

Thanks

I would point out that I have no connection with this.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 16th April 2016 at 19:26

In actual fact, the memorial was originally there in 1941 and was still there (in some fashion) when I visited in the 1980s with parts of the Spitfire still scatted around.

I covered the story in detail in an edition of ‘After the Battle’ many moons ago.

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By: paul1867 - 15th April 2016 at 17:18

Tomorrow, Saturday the 16th April, it will be the 75th anniversary of the death of two Polish pilots, flying Spitfires in 1941 one, Pilot Officer Boguslaw Mierzwa of 303, ‘Kościuszko’ Polish Squadron RAF Northolt , crashed near the site and the other, Pilot Officer Mieczyslaw Waskiewicz, in the sea off of the point neither pilot or plane has been found. Both were returning from a mission to escort six Blenheims sent to bomb a fighter airfield in France.

Polish workers at the power station became aware of the problems with the memorial, previously erected by Colin Clayton, and, with support from EDF, have today erected a new memorial in time for the anniversary.

http://www.dungeness.org.uk/2016/04/15/memorial-latest/

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