Airframe structure section with paintwork remains from Russian Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik ground attack aircraft of the 5th Guards Army,shot down and crashed Psel River area near Kursk on the Voronezh front the July-August 1943 battle in Russia.
This is a nice section of airframe from this most very famous of Russian aircraft .This is a nice size steel and aluminium airframe structure section with a structure bar in the middle it is a solid structure part with some of its original yellow and green paintwork fairly clear to see it still retains a lot of original colour it has ripped and bent by the impact of the crash it is in lovely clean condition and is perfect for display or any collection and is 11 inches long and 3 inches wide. The airframe structure part was recovered from Russian il-2 Sturmovik ground attack aircraft of the 5th Guards Army which was shot down and crashed in the area of the Psel River, south of Kursk on the Voronezh front. This area was defended by them against the German 2nd SS Panzer corps during the battle part of Operation Citadel the German Kursk offensive in July-August 1943 in Russia..The part comes with 2xA5 laminated information cards with pictures.
The Voronezh Front a military formation equivalent to an Army group. The name indicated the primary geographical region in which the front first fought, based on the town of Voronezh on the Don River. The front was established at the end of June 1942 when the German 6th Army reached Voronezh during the early stages of Operation Blau. The Voronezh Front participated in the battle of Voronezh, the defensive operations on the approaches to Stalingrad, and in the December 1942, the follow-on to the encirclement of German 6th Army at Stalingrad. In the battle of Kursk in July- August 1943, the front operated on the southern shoulder, during which it commanded the Battle of Prokhorovka itself on the Soviet side.
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