Junker Tail Section

[JR.]

t2

[JR.]

t3

[JR.]

t4

[Ken B.]

JR
What's the small little metal doohickey? Not familiar with that.

[JR.]

Henckels III Bomber Kreigs Group Estonia as seen with the stylistic "E". This is an ID tag from a bomber that was in a squadron that took part in the Spanish Civil War when the Luftwaffe were trying out their new planes.

[Ken B.]

Thats' got to be a rare item then......
Pretty neat

Thanks for letting me know

[PanzerJager1944]

After seeing all these plane pieces in this thread, I am speechless and a 100% jealous. Some wonderful stuff here, I only wish I had one I could contribute, I hope this thread keeps going.

Keep ‘em those pics coming! I love seeing these relics!

Regards,

[JR.]

The Me taill section and the Stork piece I've been planning to list in the classifieds. JR

[RUHL13]

Very nice tail sections Gary and JR
My friend would like an idea of what there worth, any ideas?
Thanks.
By the way, this is not an auction as I explained to Ade in a PM,just looking for a value.
Regards,
Gary

[Leroy]

Here's one. Bf-109 F-2 (Trop).

[SFP54]

Bf 109 F W.Nr. 10029

Here's some history for Bf/Me 109 F4/Trop. W.Nr. 10029 that flew with the vertical stabilizer above. On 18.06.42 with 1./JG27 (/.) it sustained 15% damage due to a low attack at Ain-el-Gazala airfield in Libya. Following repair, on 05.11.42 with I./SchG2 N.N., it sustained 70% damage due to a crash landing at Gambut in west Lybya. That's where the plane must have remained (abandoned) until captured. Scrap/wreckage metal from captured aircraft in North Africa was returned to the U.S. to be reused. I know of one case where some of these parts were saved as souvenirs after arriving in the U.S. Perhaps this is how this lovely item survived in such great condition.

[Leroy]

Thanks very much for this information! It's very nice to know this aircraft was once in the unit of the "Star of Africa". I knew where it ended up, but didn't know about the JG 27 connection!

I've had this for years and the story I got with it is exactly as you related. Cargo ships carried supplies to the Med, but never came back empty, instead carrying scrap. I was told this was pulled off a load going to the Reynolds metal company in Richmond, Virginia (later Reynolds Aluminum).

Again thanks so much for this history!

Best,
Leroy

[John Huff]

Call me suspicious but, I've seen pictures from after the end of the war of rows of German aircraft. Yet these souvenirs always seem to have machine gun holes stitched through them?

[Paul McKee]

Call me suspicious but, I've seen pictures from after the end of the war of rows of German aircraft. Yet these souvenirs always seem to have machine gun holes stitched through them?

In the cases posted in this thread, they look more like stripped out rivet holes to me.

Paul

[Leroy]

The individual swastika pieces shown in this thread have holes from being pulled away from the rivets which held them onto the underlying aluminum ribs of an airframe.
The Bf-109 tail shown, which is mine, has no holes (except for at the rear top where the rudder linkage was attached). You CAN see, however, where someone started to cut the swastika out, but gave up (probably hit one of the ribs underneath with the bayonet blade).

Best,
Leroy