Impact damage piston conrod bracket from an engine on Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero medium bomber shot down in April 1941 during the German and Italian invasion of Yugoslavia it was excavated in 1975.

This is a engine piston conrod bracket that sat right on the top of a piston conrod which is 7 inches long and still retains all of its original colours. The part has ripped and bent from the impact of the crash it was well protected by the engine which is why it still has its original steel colour it is still very solid not braking up at all and has been very nicely cleaned and is perfect for display or any collection.The part comes from an engine on Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM.79 Sparviero medium bomber shot down in April 1941 during the German and Italian invasion of Yugoslavia it was excavated in 1975 these parts were in the Blake Hall Airscene museum collection. The museum in Essex shut down in 2007 and comes with A5 laminated information card.

Before dawn on 6 April 1941, German forces began moving against Yugoslavia, the largest country in the Balkans. The full invasion began in earnest on 8 April, with German units supported by Italians, Hungarians, Bulgarians and Romanians. Yugoslav forces were not prepared or equipped to withstand such an onslaught, and by 17 April the Yugoslav government had capitulated. The campaign in Yugoslavia was brief and casualties were remarkably light, with just 151 Germans killed and 392 wounded. 

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