This is a detonator fuse fitted to Russian FAB-50sv 50kg aerial bomb. The fuse is missing its end fins pretty and the end cap does not unscrew from the main body it is rusty and pitted but not to bad it has been very well cleaned it does have a bit of damage the metal is pitted but overall is in very nice solid condition perfect for display or any collection and is 5 inches long. The fuse was dropped on German defensive positions on the Seelow heights it was recovered from the battlefield on the Seelow Heights in 1945 the opening battle for Berlin. The fuse comes with A5 laminated information card with pictures.
.The Battle of the Seelow Heights was part of the Seelow-Berlin Offensive Operation (16 April-2 May 1945). Fought over three days (16-19 April 1945), it was one of the last major assaults on entrenched defensive positions during the Second World War. Close to one million Soviet troops of the 1st Belorussian Front (including 78,556 soldiers of the Polish 1st Army) under Marshal Georgi Zhukov attacked the position known as the ‘‘Gates of Berlin’’. They were opposed by approximately 110,000 German soldiers of the 9th Army, commanded by General Theodor Busse, as part of Army Group Vistula.
This is a detonator fuse fitted to Russian FAB-50sv 50kg aerial bomb. The fuse is missing its end fins pretty and the end cap does not unscrew from the main body it is rusty and pitted but not to bad it has been very well cleaned it does have a bit of damage the metal is pitted but overall is in very nice solid condition perfect for display or any collection and is 5 inches long. The fuse was dropped on German defensive positions on the Seelow heights it was recovered from the battlefield on the Seelow Heights in 1945 the opening battle for Berlin. The fuse comes with A5 laminated information card with pictures.
.The Battle of the Seelow Heights was part of the Seelow-Berlin Offensive Operation (16 April-2 May 1945). Fought over three days (16-19 April 1945), it was one of the last major assaults on entrenched defensive positions during the Second World War. Close to one million Soviet troops of the 1st Belorussian Front (including 78,556 soldiers of the Polish 1st Army) under Marshal Georgi Zhukov attacked the position known as the ‘‘Gates of Berlin’’. They were opposed by approximately 110,000 German soldiers of the 9th Army, commanded by General Theodor Busse, as part of Army Group Vistula.
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