Eight WWII aircraft relics, including pieces purporting to b...

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Eight WWII aircraft relics, including pieces purporting to be from a Junkers 88, shot down by Squadron leader W.P.F. Treacy (Douglas Bader's C.O.) on 1st April 1941, at Henstead in Suffolk, together with two pieces of shell that hit RAF Hawkinge, in Kent, on 14th February 1941, believed to fired from Cape Griz Nez, mounted on cardboard with a black and white print showing German officers looking over the channel, and an oil cooler grid from a B17 Flying Fortress, which had been used in an experiment as a part radio controlled bomb, crashed into Suffolk woodland in 1944, recovered on site, 32 by 16cm, together with a P47 Thunderbolt fuel cap, with aromatic printed upon it, 11cm diameter. (1 box) Provenance - From the Christopher Elliott collection

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Auction Date: 3rd Jul 2021 at 10am

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3rd Jul 2021 10am (Lots 1 to 322)