Interior fuselage wall and roof panel remains recovered from the wreck of an abandoned JU52 transport plane near the old German airfield at Voroponovo at Stalingrad.

This is an Interior fuselage wall and roof panel remains from inside a German Junkers JU52 transport plane. The panel which has ripped and bent by the impact of the crash it is in nice solid condition it has been very nicely cleaned and is perfect for display or any collection the part is 10 inches long by 4 inches wide in size. The panel was recovered from the wreck of an abandoned JU52 which is near the old German airfield at Voroponovo which was in the 6th Army pocket during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943. The part comes with 2 x A5 laminated information sheets.

After the 6th army was in circled the Germans hurriedly prepared the Tatsinskaya airfields (capacity of up to 600 Ju 5000 and Ju86 aircraft - 11 groups) and Morozovsk (capacity of up to 400 aircraft) as the main supply bases for encircled troops, and Chernyshkovsky, Kotelnikovo, Zimovniki and Salsk aerodromes as auxiliary. Inside the encirclement ring for the reception of transport aircraft, the German command used 5 airfields (B.Rososhka, Basargino, Kennel, Gumrak, Voroponovo), which had up to 20 Bf 109 fighters raised for the transport crews.