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This is a British soldiers Brodie helmet which has no liner in place but is dated 1941 on the chin strap holders also manufacturer/date marking 1761 over III which is all clear to see.
The helmet is not to badly corroded but is battle-damaged condition, including a large perforation through the crown with splits from the impact of the hit. The helmet is lightly rusty due to being in dry sand and hot weather and this is why it has no rust roles or rust damage but with extensive pitting and weathering, and desert sand retained beneath the rim, is consistent with prolonged exposure in the Egyptian desert environment. The helmet has no real paintwork remains but it is not rusted away it has been weathered away by the sand apart from a tiny bit inside which looks green with some yellow over the top but there really is not much at all but it still retains some original colour in places mostly the rim. The helmet has been very nicely cleaned is lovely and solid not braking up or falling apart and is perfect for display or any collection. This a very rare relic from the famous North African battlefield of 1942-1943 and comes with 4xA5 laminated information cards with many pictures and all the information possible.
The helmet was recovered from the El Alamein battlefield in 2009 by Egyptian-Sahara.com, an expedition and battlefield-tour company that operated in Egypt during the late 2000s and early 2010s and specialised in expeditions to the El Alamein battlefield. Contemporary Egyptian-Sahara promotional material supplied with the helmet provides supporting provenance for its recovery and shows the company documenting and displaying battlefield relics from the area. The accompanying leaflet is retained as supporting documentary evidence of the company and its El Alamein battlefield activities.
El Alamein was the scene of the decisive Second Battle of El Alamein, fought from 23 October to 11 November 1942, when the British Eighth Army under General Bernard Montgomery launched a major offensive against German and Italian forces commanded by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. After fierce fighting across the desert, the Axis forces were forced to withdraw westwards. The victory halted the Axis advance towards Egypt and the Suez Canal and became a major turning point in the North African Campaign. The helmet therefore represents a tangible surviving artefact connected to the British and Commonwealth forces that fought in this strategically important desert theatre.
This is a near complete but empty and inert totally rare Japanese late war, emergency production rifle grenade which has been crudely made with basic steel case with a screw in base.
The case is missing its wood or bakelite-style plug with hole for the fuse at one end. And its small plug at the other. The grenade has none of its original black paintwork or original colouring. The steel case is pitted but solid, with no rust-through holes, and has been carefully cleaned. In nice relic condition but has corroded slightly but it is sturdy, not friable, and ideal for display or any militaria collection. The rifle grenade was recovered in the 1980's and has been in a private collection ever since it was originally found in an old Japanese defensive position on the island of Guam from the 1944 battle in the Pacific. It comes with 2xA5 laminated information cards with many pictures and map.
The Battle of Guam (21 July – 10 August 1944) was the successful American amphibious campaign to recapture the island of Guam from the Empire of Japan. Guam had been a prewar US territory since 1898 but was captured by the Japanese in December 1941. The 21-day battle was a key pillar of Operation Forager during the wider Pacific campaign of World War II.
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This is an authentic, glass-framed group of aluminium airframe sections and engine parts recovered from a aircraft lost during the last Christmas of the war on a very special mission. The relics which are in fantastic condition which still retains most of there original colours and lots of paintwork remains only very lightly corroded and pitted from laying around the surface on the mountains and there is very little around from this particular aircraft and a increasingly scarce piece from one of the Luftwaffe's most unusual crash sites because of the mission the aircraft was on carrying spies in to Russia. .
The aluminium sections are torn, bent and distorted by the impact of the crash but remains in good, solid condition. They have been carefully cleaned while preserving its original character and wartime patina.
The relics are presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with aircraft information, making it an excellent display piece for any aviation or Second World War collection. The frame measures approximately 12 half inches by 12 half inches.
The parts come from German Heinkel he 111 bomber code D7+GP,carrying abwehr agents in to Russia in Christmas time on 16 December 1944 when it crashed in Khibiny Mountains, Russia.
The He 111H-16 marked a later wartime development of the type. On 16 December 1944, an He 111 identified by the code D7+GP departed from Bardufoss in German-occupied Norway on a secret intelligence operation over Soviet territory on the Kola Peninsula. Accounts of the mission describe five agents being carried aboard, dressed in Soviet military uniforms and equipped with forged papers, maps and Soviet currency. Their reported task was to gather information about Soviet military activity in the Murmansk region, including troop movements and possible preparations for operations against German-occupied Norway. The aircraft is listed in loss records as belonging to Aufklärungsstaffel 1.(F)/AGr 124, a long-range reconnaissance unit. It was therefore a covert reconnaissance and agent-insertion flight, rather than a normal bombing mission.
The loss and crash site. The He 111 crashed in the Khibiny Mountains on the Kola Peninsula, north of Apatity and near the towns of Kirovsk and Apatity in the Murmansk region of the Soviet Union (now north-western Russia). Available accounts indicate that the aircraft was not shot down: it appears to have struck a mountainside in darkness and poor visibility during the polar winter. The wreck was reportedly discovered in 1945, and later visits documented scattered aircraft remains on the mountainside. A Russian account of the operation says that several German aircrew and mission personnel, together with agents, were found beneath the wreckage. The precise identities and fate of everyone aboard are not consistently detailed in accessible sources.
This is an authentic, glass-framed group of aluminium airframe sections and engine parts recovered from a aircraft lost during the last Christmas of the war on a very special mission. The relics which are in fantastic condition which still retains most of there original colours and lots of paintwork remains only very lightly corroded and pitted from laying around the surface on the mountains and there is very little around from this particular aircraft and a increasingly scarce piece from one of the Luftwaffe's most unusual crash sites because of the mission the aircraft was on carrying spies in to Russia. .
The aluminium sections are torn, bent and distorted by the impact of the crash but remains in good, solid condition. They have been carefully cleaned while preserving its original character and wartime patina.
The relics are presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with aircraft information, making it an excellent display piece for any aviation or Second World War collection. The frame measures approximately 12 half inches by 12 half inches.
The parts come from German Heinkel he 111 bomber code D7+GP,carrying abwehr agents in to Russia in Christmas time on 16 December 1944 when it crashed in Khibiny Mountains, Russia.
The He 111H-16 marked a later wartime development of the type. On 16 December 1944, an He 111 identified by the code D7+GP departed from Bardufoss in German-occupied Norway on a secret intelligence operation over Soviet territory on the Kola Peninsula. Accounts of the mission describe five agents being carried aboard, dressed in Soviet military uniforms and equipped with forged papers, maps and Soviet currency. Their reported task was to gather information about Soviet military activity in the Murmansk region, including troop movements and possible preparations for operations against German-occupied Norway. The aircraft is listed in loss records as belonging to Aufklärungsstaffel 1.(F)/AGr 124, a long-range reconnaissance unit. It was therefore a covert reconnaissance and agent-insertion flight, rather than a normal bombing mission.
The loss and crash site. The He 111 crashed in the Khibiny Mountains on the Kola Peninsula, north of Apatity and near the towns of Kirovsk and Apatity in the Murmansk region of the Soviet Union (now north-western Russia). Available accounts indicate that the aircraft was not shot down: it appears to have struck a mountainside in darkness and poor visibility during the polar winter. The wreck was reportedly discovered in 1945, and later visits documented scattered aircraft remains on the mountainside. A Russian account of the operation says that several German aircrew and mission personnel, together with agents, were found beneath the wreckage. The precise identities and fate of everyone aboard are not consistently detailed in accessible sources.
This is an authentic, glass-framed steel large pipework bracket which is rusty but does some of its original steel colour in places it was recovered from a the most famous of Hitlers vengeance weapons the V1 rocket. The relic which is in nice condition making it an attractive and increasingly scarce piece from the very famous rocket.
This part which are torn, bent and distorted by the impact of the crash but remain in good, solid condition and has some original colour in places. The part has been carefully cleaned while preserving its original character and wartime patina.
The relic is presented in a glass-fronted box frame, complete with aircraft information, making it an excellent display piece for any aviation or Second World War collection. The frame measures approximately 12 half inches by 12 half inches.
The part comes from a airborne launched from a German He111 bomber, V1 "doodlebug" flying bomb which at 6:20 am on Christmas Eve (December 24) 1944 this one was intercepted by a RAF fighter it was tipped of course.
The rocket went south and crashed and detonated in Macclesfield Forest close to Teggs Nose and Five Ashes which the explosion caused a large crater spreading wreckage over a large area.
The part comes with 2 x A5 laminated information sheet with pictures and map.
Heinkel He 111 H-16 or H-20 twin-engine bombers were fitted with a launch rail under one wing (usually the starboard side) to carry a single V1 cruise missile. The operation was carried out by the Luftwaffe's Kampfgeschwader 53 (KG 53) "Condor Legion".
In the early morning hours of Christmas Eve 1944, roughly 50 He 111s flew at a very low altitude (around 100 metres) over the North Sea toward the British coast to evade Allied radar. Once they neared the coast (off the Humber Estuary/Yorkshire area), the bombers climbed slightly to about 500 metres, ignited the V1's pulse-jet engine, released the missile on its gyrocompass heading toward Manchester, and turned back to Germany.
Because the air-launch technique was notoriously inaccurate, many of the 45 rockets released that morning failed to launch properly or went wildly off course. The rocket that dropped out of the sky at Grange Moor was one of these stray missiles, falling short and east of Manchester
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This a totally rare complete one off relic which is a heavily battle-damaged American Easy company M1 steel helmet which still has its spade badges on both sides which are still mostly clear to see. This is the rarest helmet i have ever had to sell and probably always will be. The helmet is associated with Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, and retains the distinctive white spade unit marking associated with Easy Company.
The helmet which is in relic condition but is mostly battle damaged with lots of splits and impact damage and has has bent over as well from the force of the explosion but is in remarkable condition for a relic. The helmet has bit of rust damage with a few some rust holes but nothing to bad. It is a solid piece which is not breaking up or falling apart it does not have any of its leather liner in place but does have some of its original green paintwork remains very clear to see it has been very nicely cleaned and is perfect for display or any collection. The helmet was recovered in the late 1980's or early 1990’s in a large wartime hole or position together with other American military equipment, including a substantial quantity of medical equipment and supplies. The mixed nature of the material suggests that the site was used as a temporary American field position or equipment cache during the fighting in the famous Foy woods which was fought over during the in battle of Bulge of December 1944 until January 1945..The helmet comes with 5 x A5 laminated information cards with map and many pictures with lots close up pictures of the helmet and its badge.
I myself have owned this helmet for 20 years and has been in my collection for that long i bought it directly from the man who recovered it himself and came directly out of his collection. I have seen some of his collection not all of it as some he would not show and what i saw is amazing he has been digging in the Ardennes forest for a very long time so i have a direct line of custardy and direct history of the helmet personally.
The recovery area lies within the Foy battlefield, where the 101st Airborne Division fought during the German Ardennes Offensive. Easy Company occupied positions in and around Bois Jacques and the woods overlooking Foy, enduring intense winter conditions, artillery fire and repeated German attacks. The fighting around Foy formed part of the wider defence of Bastogne and culminated in the American advance into the village in early January 1945.
Today, the helmet provides a remarkable physical link to the men of Easy Company and the brutal conditions they experienced in the Foy sector. Its severe fragmentation, penetrations, splits and deformation, combined with the surviving original Easy Company marking, make it a striking survivor from one of the most famous episodes of the Battle of the Bulge—the same history later brought to a worldwide audience through the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.