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The largest transport plane of WW2

During World War II, Germany built one of the most enormous transport aircraft ever flown: the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant.
Fighters may have the glamour and bombers the awe, but logistics win wars. Behind the great aerial logistical effort of the Second World War was a large force of transport aircraft charged with a ...
During World War II, the German military created an aircraft unlike anything seen before… the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant (“Giant”). It was the largest land-based transport aircraft of the entire war.
Air power may have proved lethally effective during the First World War, but the technology was still in its infancy. By 1939, however, European air forces as well as North American and Asian powers ...
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