Lovely condition internal electrical switch from the cockpit area from German Junkers JU52 transport plane which was recovered from the wreck of an abandoned JU52 near the old German airfield Voroponovo used during the Battle of Stalingrad

This is a very rare to get internal electrical Switch from the cockpit area which has been nicely and well removed from the plane still with electrical components still attached that still retains its original colour is very solid condition. The part has been very well cleaned and is perfect for display or any collection and is 5 inches long by 2 inches wide. The part was recovered from an abandoned JU52 transport aircraft which is wrecked around the old German Airfield outside what was Stalingrad and very hard to get relic from the Stalingrad pocket of 1942-1943 and comes with 2xA5 laminated information cards.

The switch was recovered from the wreck of an abandoned JU52 transport aircraft, near the old German airfield at Voroponovo. An area in the 6th Army pocket during the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942-1943.

After the 6th army was in circled the Germans hurriedly prepared the Tatsinskaya airfields (capacity of up to 600 Ju 5000 and Ju86 aircraft - 11 groups) and Morozovsk (capacity of up to 400 aircraft) as the main supply bases for encircled troops, and Chernyshkovsky, Kotelnikovo, Zimovniki and Salsk aerodromes as auxiliary. Inside the encirclement ring for the reception of transport aircraft, the German command used 5 airfields (B.Rososhka, Basargino, Kennel, Gumrak, Voroponovo), which had up to 20 Bf 109 fighters raised for the transport crews.

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