This is a broken track link pin which is 29cm long.The pin is in relic but solid condition it is rusty with minimal damage other then the fact it has blown off at one end, it has been carefully cleaned, making it ideal for display or any military collection. The track pin is from a vehicle there is not that much about a Russian SU-85 self-propelled gun, tank destroyer recovered from the Kurland Pocket of 1944-1945 in Latvia.The pin comes with 2x A5 laminated information cards with pictures of the scrapyard the pin came from.
The SU-85 entered service in 1943 but production was finished by mid-1944 as the gun was found to be not as affective against the German armour as was hoped so was replaced by the SU-100 with its more powerful 100mm gun only 2050 were ever built.
The Kurland Pocket refers to the Red Army's blockade or isolation of Axis forces on the Courland Peninsula from July 1944 through May 1945.The pocket was created during the Red Army's Baltic Strategic Offensive Operation, when forces of the 1st Baltic Front reached the Baltic Sea near Memel during its lesser Memel Offensive Operation phases. This action isolated the German Army Group North from the rest of the German forces between Tukums and Liepāja in Latvia. Renamed Heeresgruppe Kurland on 25 January 1945 the Army Group remained isolated until the end of the war. When they were ordered to surrender to the Soviet command on 8 May, they were in "blackout" and did not get the official order before 10 May, two days after the capitulation of Germany. It was one of the last German groups to surrender in Europe.
This is a broken track link pin which is 29cm long.The pin is in relic but solid condition it is rusty with minimal damage other then the fact it has blown off at one end, it has been carefully cleaned, making it ideal for display or any military collection. The track pin is from a vehicle there is not that much about a Russian SU-85 self-propelled gun, tank destroyer recovered from the Kurland Pocket of 1944-1945 in Latvia.The pin comes with 2x A5 laminated information cards with pictures of the scrapyard the pin came from.
The SU-85 entered service in 1943 but production was finished by mid-1944 as the gun was found to be not as affective against the German armour as was hoped so was replaced by the SU-100 with its more powerful 100mm gun only 2050 were ever built.
The Kurland Pocket refers to the Red Army's blockade or isolation of Axis forces on the Courland Peninsula from July 1944 through May 1945.The pocket was created during the Red Army's Baltic Strategic Offensive Operation, when forces of the 1st Baltic Front reached the Baltic Sea near Memel during its lesser Memel Offensive Operation phases. This action isolated the German Army Group North from the rest of the German forces between Tukums and Liepāja in Latvia. Renamed Heeresgruppe Kurland on 25 January 1945 the Army Group remained isolated until the end of the war. When they were ordered to surrender to the Soviet command on 8 May, they were in "blackout" and did not get the official order before 10 May, two days after the capitulation of Germany. It was one of the last German groups to surrender in Europe.
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