Thread: Divers discover wreckage of 'Giant' German Luftwaffe transport plane shot down by British fighter while flying from base in Sardinia
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Old 22nd September 2012, 15:46
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Re: Divers discover wreckage of 'Giant' German Luftwaffe transport plane shot down by British fighter while flying from base in Sardinia
joyban - Thanks for posting this . If July 1943 is correct is w.n. 1267 I/TG5 shot down on the 26th July east of Cape Rera(?) a possibility 3 killed and 6 injured.
In 1984 the Daily Mail reported on the meeting between Walter Honig pilot of Me 323 wn 1274 and Gil Graham gunner from the Marauder who shot him down causing a crash-landing on the north coast of Corsica on 30-7-43. Hopefully the Daily Mail has not linked the Honig incident to this new discovery which has come down in the sea, perhaps a werk-nummer will turn up,

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