[paulmcmillan]

YESTERDAY, with 15h15 with Hazebrouck, the voices are kill at the edge of the six depth meters hole dug the day before after one year of difficult research (our edition of Tuesday). The safety cap posed on the argillaceous ground, Arnaud Gillet, specialist in the aerial combats of May-juin1940, speaks and announces, of a solemn tone: "We have just found the body of a German pilot killed with the combat and died for its fatherland. I ask you for one minute of silence." A handkerchief, a package of cigarettes, porte-monnaie containing of the marks, a wallet... As many personal effects found yesterday in a maze of aeronautical parts also perfectly preserved, more than sixty after the crash of Messerschmitt 109 controlled by the matricule68454-173. Which one should probably know the identity quickly. A discovery which does not owe large-thing randomly. The original ambition of these excavations - carried out by Air France in partnership with the museum of the Cupola and the regional Management of the cultural affairs - was indeed to find Spitfire and body of Jan Plesman. The plane of the son of the founder of the company Dutchwoman KLM had been cut down the 1erseptembre 1944 with 11h20 with Hazebrouck. But Monday, the impassioned in charge ones of the investigation had had to go to the obviousness: the witnesses had not been mistaken, but simply, it was not about the good plane. Remain an "absolutely exceptional" discovery, according to Yves Maner, of the museum of the Cupola "It is because the plane did not explode at the time of the shock with the ground which we could find all that", added it. The mystery of Jan Plesman, remained intact, remains of topicality. Calls to witnesses should be started again. While the apparatus of the matricule68454-173 will be analyzed in Hazebrouck and that its body, if not-identified, will be buried with the German military cemetery of Andilly (54). Perrine DIÉVAL