Massive German Warplane Wreck Found-- Part 2

Continued from Monday's post.

Cristina Freghieri, a diver and amateur historian discovered the plane off Sardinia.  It was shot down July 26, 1943, by a Beaufighter fighter plane on its way to the Tuscan city of Piatoia from its base in Sardinia.  The crew managed to moor before it sank and some of the soldiers it was carrying managed to escape in a raft, but most sank with it.

Freghieri spent a year searching military archives and flight path records.  They identified theplane with a wire-attached camera then explored it as a team.

The Me-323 is the second WW II discovery off Sardinia in the last three months.  In June, the wreckage of the Corazzata Roma, the flagship of the Italian Navy was found.  It was sunk by the Germans in September 1943.

Finding the Wrecks.  --GreGen