Rare to find nice complete track link from Russian BT-5 Cavalry tank also captured and used by the Germans recovered in the Demyansk Pocket in Russia 1941-1942 battlefield

This is a rare to find nice complete track link from Russian BT-5 Cavalry tank also captured and used in large numbers by the Germans .The link which is complete an undamaged it is in relic condition but very nice condition for a relic it is rusty but very solid and has been very well cleaned and come up really nice it has been used but still a very nice and very rare example of this famous track link which has seen action in the battle. This is a lovely bit of tank which is perfect for display and a rare and hard to find link for the collection. This track link was recovered from a tank destroyed in the Demyansk Pocket in Russia 1941-1942 battlefield and comes with a A5 laminated information card.

The Demyansk Pocket in Russia was the name given to the pocket of German troops encircled by the Red Army around Demyansk (Demjansk), south of Leningrad, during the war on the Eastern Front. The pocket existed mainly from 8 February to 21 April 1942. A much smaller force was surrounded in the Kholm Pocket at the town of Kholm, about 100 km (62 mi) to the southwest. Both resulted from the German retreat following their defeat during the Battle of Moscow. German Forces trapped in the pocket were the 12th, 30th, 32nd, 123rd and 290th infantry divisions, and the SS Division Totenkopf, as well as RAD, Police, Organisation Todt and other auxiliary units, for a total of about 90,000 German troops and around 10,000 auxiliaries. Their commander was General der Infanterie Walter Graf von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, commander of the II Army Corps.

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