Blown apart section of 26mm armour plate from the underbelly or turret roof from German Tiger tank of 9th Panzer Division recovered near in the Ruhr Pocket April 1945

This is a blown apart section of 26mm armour plate from the underbelly or turret roof the only places that had that thickness of armour on a tiger tank, The armour section has a large hole in the middle it is in relic but solid condition it does not have much original paintwork left it is rusty but solid and has been very well cleaned up the part has ripped apart and is 7 inches long by 4 inches wide and perfect for display or any collection. The armour section was recovered from the site of a destroyed German Tiger 1 tank of Schwere panzer Abteilung 301 of the 9th Panzer Division, 5th Panzer Army. From the site of a destroyed Tiger tank, recovered near Elsdorf south of Dusseldorf in the Ruhr Pocket April 1945.The plate comes with 2xA5 laminated information cards.

The 5. Panzerarmee was formed on 8 December 1942 in North Africa through the restructuring of the LXXXX Armee Korps. It surrendered in Tunisia on 9 May 1943. The 5. Panzerarmee was reformed on 5 August 1944 by the redesignation of Panzergruppe West. It fought in Normandy and narrowly escaped being destroyed in the Falaise Pocket. In September 1944, the 5. Panzerarmee launched an unsuccessful counterattack against the U.S. Third Army in Lorraine before withdrawing to the German border. The 9th Division was then partly reformed with schwere panzer abteilung 301 getting new tiger 1 tanks the Army then took part in the failed Ardennes offensive in December 1944 and later fought at the Remagen bridgehead before being destroyed in the Ruhr Pocket on 17 April 1945.