A switch or circuit breaker, presumably from the cockpit of a late war Bf 109. With the "P" still visible on top I hope I can find out it's purpose and if the plane was identified correctly. The site is not far from my parents home and it is one of two crash sites near my home village where I am researching the events behind these wrecks. The other one is another Lancaster bomber.
A friend send me a video of this part from the crash site of a German single engine fighter. If the plane is identified correctly, it was a Bf 109G-14/AS from IV./JG 53 that went down there on March 23rd 1945. Other parts found on the site are more ubiquitous and include empty shells of MG151/20 ammunition, a part of a MG131/13 machine gun and a corresponding bullet.
Based on the small size and general look I suspected a heavily coroded part of one of this circuit breakers, found installed in many Luftwaffe planes:
Fl.E 5000 01 Selbstschalter 6A, 19-5000 A-3 | Deutscheluftwaffe
But they seem completely standardized, without individual markings.
A friend send me a video of this part from the crash site of a German single engine fighter. If the plane is identified correctly, it was a Bf 109G-14/AS from IV./JG 53 that went down there on March 23rd 1945. Other parts found on the site are more ubiquitous and include empty shells of MG151/20 ammunition, a part of a MG131/13 machine gun and a corresponding bullet.
Based on the small size and general look I suspected a heavily coroded part of one of this circuit breakers, found installed in many Luftwaffe planes:
Fl.E 5000 01 Selbstschalter 6A, 19-5000 A-3 | Deutscheluftwaffe
But they seem completely standardized, without individual markings.
