This is a large solid steel holding bracket that not sure what exactly it held possibly a external holder. The bracket which is rusty but overall nice condition one of the brackets still moves and has a small amount of original paintwork it has ripped off and bent up by the impact of the crash it is in rusty and relic but solid condition it is 9 inches long by 6 inches wide in size.This is is a rare one for any collection and is perfect for display.The part comes from German Fieseler Storch Fi 156 F-1 of Stab Jafu Norwegen, work number 1411 W5+BK protecting battleship Tirpitz when it crashed on the 8th May 1944 at Fættenfjord, Nord-Trøndelag in Norway.The part comes with 2x A5 laminated information cards with crash site pictures.
The aircraft flew into one of the
three air defence cable placed across the narrow Vuddu valley to protect
"Tirpitz", during flight from Værnes to Hattfjelldal.
Oberleutant Bolz Gerhard, Obergefreiter Sigel Walther
(eikeløvsbærer) Hilburg, Gustav. All buried at Havstein Cemetery. The
Storch had been coming low into the fjord, and had hit one of the vertical
wires attached to the main horizontal wire. Its propeller had then twisted up
the wire, the plane was hanging for some seconds before falling into the ground
with its tail down. It hit the ground few meters above the railway line
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