Recently a reader in Belgium have sent me the following pictures with a request for help. The question puzzled me and I am therefore passing it along.

I have an unknown wheel of a small airplane that crashed in Vlissegem, near the Belgium coast in WWII. It's a Dunlop tyre 'made in France', with traces of green camouflage on the axle; the sizeof the tyre is 600x150. Can you tell me from which type aircraft it should come?

I for one, can tell for sure it is not a Spitfire tailwheel. Can you recognize the type of aircraft it belonged to?

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