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From the adjacent sign board:-

“This tyre was found washed up on the beach at Seahouses on 20th June 1998. It is probably from the one shot down just south of Seahouses on 15th August 1940 by Spitfires of 72sqn from RAF Acklington, killing the two crew members. Oberieutnant LOOBES (Gruppe Intelligence Officer) Unteroffizier BROCK (1st Gruppe Adjutant) The aircraft was from I/ZG76 based at AALBORG in Denmark and was acting as a long range fighter escort to Heinkel bombers of KG26 raiding North East airfields”

It is now on display in the Bamburgh Castle Aviation Artefacts Museum, Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, UK.

12th September 2017
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Source Mainwheel tyre from Messerschmitt Bf110 – Bamburgh Castle.
Author Alan Wilson from Stilton, Peterborough, Cambs, UK
Camera location55° 36′ 34.64″ N, 1° 42′ 43.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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