Original German WWII Heinkel He 111 Heavy Bomber Trench Art with Base Original Items

Original Items: Only One Available. This is very nice nickel-plated cast brass model Heinkel He 111 Bomber, with wings that measure 5 3/4” and fuselage that measures 4 1/8” in length. Wee believe this to be a German manufactured piece to due to the Bauhaus style base.

The model is held by what looks to be a stainless steel pole screwed into to the iron bass, and it can easily be disassembled for cleaning and storage. This would have been quite easy to transport home after the war.

Condition is very good, though one of the plastic “propellers” on the front of the plane has had the top 1/3 crack off. There is also some light denting and damage to the plane body itself, which also has had three threaded holes added to it. It possible that it was some type of training piece, later converted for use on a desk.

Comes more than ready for display!

The Heinkel He 111 was a German airliner and bomber designed by Siegfried and Walter Günter at Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1934. Through development, it was described as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”. Due to restrictions placed on Germany after the First World War prohibiting bombers, it was presented solely as a civil airliner, although from conception the design was intended to provide the nascent Luftwaffe with a heavy bomber.

Perhaps the best-recognised German bomber of World War II due to the distinctive, extensively glazed “greenhouse” nose of the later versions, the Heinkel He 111 was the most numerous Luftwaffe bomber during the early stages of the war. It fared well until it met serious fighter opposition during the Battle of Britain, when its defensive armament was found to be inadequate. As the war progressed, the He 111 was used in a wide variety of roles on every front in the European theatre. It was used as a strategic bomber during the Battle of Britain, a torpedo bomber in the Atlantic and Arctic, and a medium bomber and a transport aircraft on the Western, Eastern, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, and North African Front theatres.