This is a Turret traverse drive chain assembly which enabled the rotation of the turret inside a German Tiger 1 tank.
The chain looks a complete length with bolt connecters at each end it has rusted solid in to its postion and does not move but with more cleaning probarly will it is in relic but solid condition it is rusty but solid and has been very well cleaned up the part has blown off in an explosion and is 9 inches long by 5 half inches wide and perfect for display or any collection. The turret chain was 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 part comes with 3xA5 laminated information cards with map also with diagram picture shoing the part and where abouts on the tank it is from in clear pictures..
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 Turret traverse drive chain assembly which enabled the rotation of the turret inside a German Tiger 1 tank.
The chain looks a complete length with bolt connecters at each end it has rusted solid in to its postion and does not move but with more cleaning probarly will it is in relic but solid condition it is rusty but solid and has been very well cleaned up the part has blown off in an explosion and is 9 inches long by 5 half inches wide and perfect for display or any collection. The turret chain was 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 part comes with 3xA5 laminated information cards with map also with diagram picture shoing the part and where abouts on the tank it is from in clear pictures..
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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