This is a nice and very rare shell case 8.8cm,KwK36 with electric primer only used and fired by the very famous German tiger tank.These cases are some much harder to find then the standard 88mm case fire by the anti-tank gun.
The shell case is steel made it is missing some section around the neck with rust damage it is in relic but solid condition with a few rust holes but still a lovely solid case which is not braking up or falling apart. On the bottom non of its maker markings that can be seen but the primer is there it has been very well cleaned it is perfect to display or any collection and it is empty and inert. The shell case 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 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 nice and very rare shell case 8.8cm,KwK36 with electric primer only used and fired by the very famous German tiger tank.These cases are some much harder to find then the standard 88mm case fire by the anti-tank gun.
The shell case is steel made it is missing some section around the neck with rust damage it is in relic but solid condition with a few rust holes but still a lovely solid case which is not braking up or falling apart. On the bottom non of its maker markings that can be seen but the primer is there it has been very well cleaned it is perfect to display or any collection and it is empty and inert. The shell case 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 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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