This is a pair of blown apart engine parts from inside the Maybach HL230 engine which is a blown cog section and the end of a large conrod which blown clear off. The parts are in relic but solid condition they do not have any original paintwork left they are rusty but solid and have been very well cleaned up they have ripped apart in an explosion and are 4-5 inches long and are perfect for display or any collection. The engine parts were 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 engine parts come 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.
This is a pair of blown apart engine parts from inside the Maybach HL230 engine which is a blown cog section and the end of a large conrod which blown clear off. The parts are in relic but solid condition they do not have any original paintwork left they are rusty but solid and have been very well cleaned up they have ripped apart in an explosion and are 4-5 inches long and are perfect for display or any collection. The engine parts were 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 engine parts come 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.
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