UBB.threads Forums General Interest Collector's Showcase Focke Wulf FW 190 A8 Armored Canopy Glass Piece

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.

Very cool artifact! It reminded me of a story my uncle told me about armor glass. He was in gunnery school in Texas training to be a turret gunner for a B17. When he expressed concern about being hung out of the plane with nothing but a piece of glass in front of him, the instructor explained that the armor glass shield would stop anything short of a 20mm cannon shell. He and some buddies found a shield from a training B17 that was removed to allow more space in the turret for training, and slipped it out to the range with a Thompson. On the first burst, the armor glass shield disintegrated. They didn't much trust the instructor after that

Thanks Vern. Wow and that was from only a .45 caliber. If you go to youtube type in Luftwaffe gun camera. There are a few on there showing the ball turret being totally demolished on a B17 by a FW190.