A team of Italian researchers have found the wreckage of a huge German Luftwaffe aircraft from World War II off the coast of Sardinia.
The vessel is believed to be the last surviving Messerschmitt-323 Gigant craft, the largest land-based transport aircraft from the war.
A team of Italian researchers have found the wreckage of a huge German Luftwaffe aircraft from World War II off the coast of Sardinia believed to be the last surviving Messerschmitt-323 Gigant craft, the largest land-based transport aircraft from the war.
The German transport plane, which was designed to carry tanks and artillery, was apparently shot down by a British aircraft, reports the Daily Telegraph newspaper, on July 26, 1943, during a flight from a Nazi base in Sardinia on its way to Pistoia in the Italian mainland.
The Me-323 crashed in the water near Maddalena Island.
Originally intended for a campaign to invade Britain, as part of Operation Sea Lion, the plane instead was diverted to duty in the Mediterranean and North Africa.
