Focke Wulf FW 190 A8 Armored Canopy Glass Piece - 04/17/2011 03:11 AM
Here is a recent addition to my Luftwaffe collection. This is a piece of armor glass (panzershiebe) from the front canopy of a Focke Wulf FW 190 A8. As far as we know this comes from a crash site of a downed FW 190 A8 in the vicinity east of Ergli Latvia which crashed in August of 1944. Records show that the only loss in that area at that time was a FW 190 A8 flown by Horst Adameit of 1/JG 54. The piece of glass still exhibits burn marks on it.Panzersheibe has 4 layers of glass with a thickness of 50mm (1.968) My piece measures out to be 1.030. Very neat piece of Luftwaffe history.