RapidFireWeb Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant (Luftwaffe Photo) The Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant(“Giant”) was a German military transport aircraft of the Second World War. It was a powered variant of the Me 321 military glider and was the largest land-based transport aircraft to fly during the war. In total, 213 were made, with 15 being converted from … Read more
Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerika Bomber German warplanes of the Second World War: Messerschmitt Me 264 Deutsche Flugzeuge aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Messerschmitt Me 264 The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War that have been preserved. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft … Read more
Warplanes of the Second World War preserved in Greece The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in Greece. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are as credited. Any errors found … Read more
Warplanes of the Second World War preserved in Germany Note: Surviving Luftwaffe aircraft around the world are documented on other pages on this website. The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in Germany. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to … Read more
Messerschmitt Me 210 (Luftwaffe Photo) Messerschmitt Me 210 in Luftwaffe service. The Messerschmitt Me 210 was a German heavy fighter and ground-attack aircraft of World War II. Design started before the war, as a replacement for the Bf 110. The first examples were ready in 1939, but they proved to have unacceptably poor flight characteristics … Read more
Messerschmitt Me 309 (Luftwaffe Photo) The Messerschmitt Me 309 was a prototype German fighter, designed in the early years of the Second World War to replace the Messerschmitt Bf 109. Although it had many advanced features, the Me 309’s performance left much to be desired and it had so many problems that the project was … Read more
Mistel combinations (USAAF Photo) Mistel Junkers Ju 88 and Focke-Wulf Fw 190 on top, being examined by U.S. Army troops at Bernberg, Germany, ca April-May 1945. Mistel (German for “mistletoe”, a parasitic plant) was the larger, unmanned component of a composite aircraft configuration developed in Germany during the later stages of the Second World War. … Read more
Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling (Butterfly) (German Luftwaffe Photo) The Henschel Hs 117 Schmetterling (Butterfly) was a radio-guided German surface-to-air missile project. There was also an air-to-air version, the Hs 117H. The operators used a telescopic sight and a joystick to guide the missile by radio control. It was detonated by acoustic and photoelectric proximity fuses. … Read more
German Luftwaffe Warplanes: Siebel Deutsche Flugzeuge: Siebel The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War that have been preserved. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are as credited. Any errors found here … Read more
German V-2 Rockets, preserved Aggregat A4 Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) Raketen, konserviert The V2 (German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, lit. ’Vengeance Weapon 2′), with the technical name Aggregat 4 (A4), was the world’s first long-range[4] guided ballistic missile. The missile, powered by a liquid-propellant rocket engine, was developed during the Second World War in Nazi Germany as a “vengeance … Read more
