And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, April 8, 2023
A wrecked German Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant at El Aouiana airport, Tunisia, May 1943.
Reinforced balsa-wood glider that became a 6-engine Hauls-All transport. Required a 4-engine transport laboring as a tug. Gros-Papa of a generation or two of new & improved Giants.
Reminds me of the old Flight of the Phoenix movie….
ReplyDeleteIt's cosmetic, It'll buff out.
ReplyDeleteA little Bondo, and little duct tape, near good as new.
DeleteDon't forget the spit and baling wire.
Deletelooks a bit small for a gigant
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Not sure what it is but the scale is way off. Those soldiers should be dwarfed by it.
DeleteReinforced balsa-wood glider that became a 6-engine Hauls-All transport. Required a 4-engine transport laboring as a tug. Gros-Papa of a generation or two of new & improved Giants.
ReplyDeleteThat would be "Opa!", not Große vater.
DeleteAll the versions of grandfather "Opa" are used and correct: Großvater, Großvati, Großpapa, Opapa ... and so on.
DeletePilots were probably glad they wouldn't have to fly it again. They were target practice for the allies.
ReplyDeleteTwo blade propellers, four engines. This seems to be a precursor of the ME 323.
ReplyDeleteAnyone have an opinion?
Early version. Later units used 3 blades. The goofy looking two blade can be found in another wreckage photo (showing all 6)
DeleteWrecked him, why it damn near killed him!
ReplyDeleteIf they hadn't tried to put the Ark Of The Covenant on it, Indiana wouldn't have blown it up.
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