German 10.5cm Armour Piercing steel shell case fired by SK C/32 naval anti-aircraft gun, recovered from German ammunition storage bunker used by 11th SS Panzergrenadier Division Nordland-the 1944 Narva Battle in Estonia, recovered in 2022+dig pictures

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This is a part of a group of items recovered in 2022 from an old German ammunition bunker site which was blown up by the Russians after it was captured this is why most of the items are battle-damaged. This is a German 10.5cm steel shell case fired by SK/32 naval anti-aircraft gun This German complete 10.5cm armour piercing shell fired by SK/32 naval anti-aircraft gun used as anti tank gun late war by the Germans in land during ground battles in the anti-tank role similar to the famous 88mm gun that was converted to the same role .The projectile still with most of its original colour and ballistic cap it does have a small rust hole in the tip but is wonderfully clean and lovely example it is empty and inert and goes in and out of the shell case perfectly well. The case is steel made it is in relic but solid condition and has some of its maker markings that can be seen on the bottom of the case including dated 1944 and waffen stamp and complete with its primer dated 1943 it has some rust holes and damage mostly down one side with larger hole the rare bit it still has remains of its original brass wash the case has been very well cleaned it is perfect to display or and a rare one for any collection as this gun was not made in the numbers of other German heavy guns and being a Naval gun it is rarer. The shell is empty and inert and was recovered from a German ammunition storage bunker which on the information cards you can see what one of these bunkers looked like being made and the plans for one also on the cards are photographs of the recovery of some of the items as they were recovered from the bunker complex this year. The ammunition dump site around Udria was the location of multiple bunkers which were blown up by the Russian Army after capture. Originally used by SS artillery Regiment 11 of the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland. Originally a rear area storage area for Narva itself, the battle of February-June 1944.This was also the rear area of the German Panther line from July until August 1944 it was part of the battlefield in front of the Tannenberg line on the Northern coast of Estonia from the Narva battlefield in Estonia. The item comes with 2xA5 laminated information cards with many pictures

The Battle of Narva took place from February 2, 1944 - August 10, 1944. Basically, the only reason for this battle was Soviet Union's Joseph Stalin wanted the area around Narva (Estonia) for an air base and an entrance for the invasion of Prussia. However, things didn't go as Stalin planned. The German Army hit the Soviets fast and hard resulting in 480,000 casualties compared to Germany's 68,000. The German forces involved the battle were III SS (Germanic) Panzer Corps XXVI Army Corps XXXXIII Army Corps Eastern sector, coastal defence. The 3rd (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps their order battle as of the 15th June 1944 was 103rd SS Heavy Panzer Battalion, SS Nordland Division also 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS 1st Estonian and 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade Netherlands.