Historical Information

Stand in the dunes to commemorate the bombing on the Zeedijk of Westkapelle on October 3th 1944 and the closure of the flooded dyke hole on October 2nd 1945.

It is a seven meters high metal column, which can be seen as the handle of a spade showing an elongated oval shape in which a bomb could be seen. It  were bombs that pierced the dykes and the spade which closed these holes.