This is a massive long aluminium made airframe structure section maker marked S-B for [Short Brothers] which is a wing or fuselage connector bracket section with some original green paintwork remains and has a clear to see maker marking in the middle of it. This panel has only slightly ripped and bent by the impact of the crash it has been very nicely cleaned and still retains a lot of its original colour and is a large size at 50 inches long by 2 half inches wide. The panel comes with 2×A5 laminated information cards with pictures.The part is from from British RAF short Stirling bomber EF457 of 620 Squadron which was shot down on the night of the 17th- 18th August 1943 on a raid on rocket facility at Peenemünde in Germany.
The crew S/L A D Lambert DFC,Sgt V L Enders,Sgt E W Evans,Sgt R G Cooper,Sgt C C Leeming all were taken prisoner of war and F/O L G Kennett, Sgt D J Carrington and Sgt R E Thompson were all killed.
This raid was the opening attack of the British Operation Crossbow, the Operation Hydra air-raid attacked the HVP's "Sleeping & Living Quarters" (to specifically target scientists), then the "Factory Workshops", and finally the "Experimental Station on that night of the 18th August major damage was done to the site. The plane was shot down in a dual effort by flak and a night-fighter and crashed near Wusterhausen, 15km ENE of Greifswald not far from Peenemunde in Germany.
This is a massive long aluminium made airframe structure section maker marked S-B for [Short Brothers] which is a wing or fuselage connector bracket section with some original green paintwork remains and has a clear to see maker marking in the middle of it. This panel has only slightly ripped and bent by the impact of the crash it has been very nicely cleaned and still retains a lot of its original colour and is a large size at 50 inches long by 2 half inches wide. The panel comes with 2×A5 laminated information cards with pictures.The part is from from British RAF short Stirling bomber EF457 of 620 Squadron which was shot down on the night of the 17th- 18th August 1943 on a raid on rocket facility at Peenemünde in Germany.
The crew S/L A D Lambert DFC,Sgt V L Enders,Sgt E W Evans,Sgt R G Cooper,Sgt C C Leeming all were taken prisoner of war and F/O L G Kennett, Sgt D J Carrington and Sgt R E Thompson were all killed.
This raid was the opening attack of the British Operation Crossbow, the Operation Hydra air-raid attacked the HVP's "Sleeping & Living Quarters" (to specifically target scientists), then the "Factory Workshops", and finally the "Experimental Station on that night of the 18th August major damage was done to the site. The plane was shot down in a dual effort by flak and a night-fighter and crashed near Wusterhausen, 15km ENE of Greifswald not far from Peenemunde in Germany.
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