Original film footage captures Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant heavy transports flying at extremely low altitude over the Mediterranean in 1943. Designed to carry tanks, vehicles, and troops, the six-engined Gigant was the largest land-based transport aircraft of World War II—slow, vulnerable, yet indispensable for supplying Axis forces in North Africa and Sicily. Escorted by fighters, these lumbering aircraft often flew just above the waves to avoid Allied radar and interceptors. Many wer

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Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant Takes Flight!!

Messerschmitt Me 323 "Gigant" transports ferrying equipment in the Mediterranean Theater circa 1943