This is an authentic, glass-framed steel and aluminium airframe sections and electrical parts recovered from a the most famous of Hitlers vengeance weapons the V1 rocket. The relics which are in nice condition still retains some of there original wartime finish and some original colours, making it an attractive and increasingly scarce piece from the very famous rocket.
This group of parts which are torn, bent and distorted by the impact of the crash but remain in good, solid condition and most of there original colours. All the parts have been carefully cleaned while preserving there original character and wartime patina.
The relics are presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with aircraft information, making them an excellent display piece for any aviation or Second World War collection. The frame measures approximately 10 half inches by 10 half inches.
The parts come from a airborne launched from a German He111 bomber, V1 "doodlebug" flying bomb which at 6:20 am on Christmas Eve (December 24) 1944 this one was intercepted by a RAF fighter it was tipped of course.
The rocket went south and crashed and detonated in Macclesfield Forest close to Teggs Nose and Five Ashes which the explosion caused a large crater spreading wreckage over a large area.
The part comes with 2 x A5 laminated information sheet with pictures and map.
Heinkel He 111 H-16 or H-20 twin-engine bombers were fitted with a launch rail under one wing (usually the starboard side) to carry a single V1 cruise missile. The operation was carried out by the Luftwaffe's Kampfgeschwader 53 (KG 53) "Condor Legion".
In the early morning hours of Christmas Eve 1944, roughly 50 He 111s flew at a very low altitude (around 100 metres) over the North Sea toward the British coast to evade Allied radar. Once they neared the coast (off the Humber Estuary/Yorkshire area), the bombers climbed slightly to about 500 metres, ignited the V1's pulse-jet engine, released the missile on its gyrocompass heading toward Manchester, and turned back to Germany.
Because the air-launch technique was notoriously inaccurate, many of the 45 rockets released that morning failed to launch properly or went wildly off course. The rocket that dropped out of the sky at Grange Moor was one of these stray missiles, falling short and east of Manchester
This is an authentic, glass-framed steel and aluminium airframe sections and electrical parts recovered from a the most famous of Hitlers vengeance weapons the V1 rocket. The relics which are in nice condition still retains some of there original wartime finish and some original colours, making it an attractive and increasingly scarce piece from the very famous rocket.
This group of parts which are torn, bent and distorted by the impact of the crash but remain in good, solid condition and most of there original colours. All the parts have been carefully cleaned while preserving there original character and wartime patina.
The relics are presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with aircraft information, making them an excellent display piece for any aviation or Second World War collection. The frame measures approximately 10 half inches by 10 half inches.
The parts come from a airborne launched from a German He111 bomber, V1 "doodlebug" flying bomb which at 6:20 am on Christmas Eve (December 24) 1944 this one was intercepted by a RAF fighter it was tipped of course.
The rocket went south and crashed and detonated in Macclesfield Forest close to Teggs Nose and Five Ashes which the explosion caused a large crater spreading wreckage over a large area.
The part comes with 2 x A5 laminated information sheet with pictures and map.
Heinkel He 111 H-16 or H-20 twin-engine bombers were fitted with a launch rail under one wing (usually the starboard side) to carry a single V1 cruise missile. The operation was carried out by the Luftwaffe's Kampfgeschwader 53 (KG 53) "Condor Legion".
In the early morning hours of Christmas Eve 1944, roughly 50 He 111s flew at a very low altitude (around 100 metres) over the North Sea toward the British coast to evade Allied radar. Once they neared the coast (off the Humber Estuary/Yorkshire area), the bombers climbed slightly to about 500 metres, ignited the V1's pulse-jet engine, released the missile on its gyrocompass heading toward Manchester, and turned back to Germany.
Because the air-launch technique was notoriously inaccurate, many of the 45 rockets released that morning failed to launch properly or went wildly off course. The rocket that dropped out of the sky at Grange Moor was one of these stray missiles, falling short and east of Manchester
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