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WWII German Aircraft Photographs - Fighters

Messerschmitt 262 Schwalbe & Sturmvogel - Page 10

Me262A-2a I.3./JG 7 Yellow 17 WNr.500210 RAF AirMin 52 (VH509) & Me262A-2a I.3./JG 7 Yellow 7 WNr.112372
RAF AirMin 51 (VX893) Captured At Fassberg Germany May 8, 1945 But, Yellow 7 Later Crashed & Repaired In Holland June 1945
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Me262A-1a/U3 III.9./EJG 2 WNr.500453 White-Outline 25 Named 'Connie My Sharp Article' Then Later, 'Pick II' Recon Version Nose with Camera Bulges Replaced By Fighter Nose with Faired Over Nose MK108 30mm Gun Ports That Were Removed For Flight Tests Against
USAAF P80 Jet
Watson's Whizzers #444
(FE-4012)/(T2-4012)
& with New Engine Cowlings
As Part of Modifications When Howard Hughes Later Obtained Plane For Bendix Air Races, But Gov't Banned Use in Races Because Plane Was Too Fast & Later Plane Went to Planes of Fame Owner Ed Maloney In Southern California
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Me262A-2a 3./JG 7 Yellow 7 WNr.112372 RAF AirMin 51 (VK893) Flown By Unteroffizier Gunther Engler Captured At Fassberg, Lower Saxony, Germany May 8. 1945 But, Erroneously Painted as Red X
Now At RAF Cosford Museum As 10./NJG 11 Red 2, But
Later Sent to RAF Hendon Museum As 3./JG 7 Yellow 4 &
Finally Back to RAF Cosford In 2017 Still In RAF Hendon Colors
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Me262A-1a I.1./JG 7 (VQ+TX) WNr.111690 White 5 Flown By 2nd-Staffelkapitan Oberleutnant Fritz Stehle Surrendered At Fassberg, Lower Saxony, Germany
RAF AirMin 80
May 8, 1945
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Me262A-2a 3./JG 7 Yellow 17 WNr.500210 RAF AirMin 52 (VH509)(Left) &
Me262A-2a 3./JG 7 Yellow 7 WNr.112372 RAF AirMin 51 (VX893)(Middle) &
Me262A-1a 1./JG 7 (VQ+TX) WNr.111690 White 5 RAF AirMin80(Right)
Surrendered At Lechfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany May 8, 1945
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Me262A-2a III.11./JG 7 WNr.110007 (Yellow5+BlackI) Flown By Unteroffizier Anton Schöppler Captured As RAF AirMin 79 Stayed In Fassberg, Lower Saxony, Germany
May 8, 1945
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Me262A-2a III.11./JG 7 WNr.110007 (Yellow5+BlackI) Flown By Unteroffizier Anton Schöppler Captured As RAF AirMin 79 Stayed In Fassberg, Lower Saxony, Germany
May 8, 1945
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Me262A-2a III.11./JG 7 WNr.110007 (Yellow5+BlackI) Flown By Unteroffizier Anton Schöppler Captured As RAF AirMin 79 Stayed In Fassberg & Behind Is Me262 A1a I.1./JG 7 (VQ+TX) WNr.111690 White 5 Flown By 2nd-Staffelkapitan Oberleutnant Fritz Stehle
RAF AirMin 80 Later Went to UK, But Both Were Captured At Fassberg, Lower Saxony, Germany
May 8, 1945
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Me262A-2a III.11./JG 7 WNr.110007 (Yellow5+BlackI) Flown By Unteroffizier Anton Schöppler Captured As RAF AirMin 79 But, Stayed In Fassberg, Lower Saxony, Germany May 8, 1945
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Me262A-1a I.1./JG 7 (VQ+TX) WNr.111690 White 5 Flown By
2nd-Staffelkapitan Oberleutnant Fritz Stehle Captured As RAF AirMin 80 & Later Went to UK
Surrendered At Fassberg, Lower Saxony, Germany
May 8, 1945
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Me262A-2a I.3./JG 7 Yellow 17 WNr.500210 RAF AirMin 52 (VH509) with JG 7 Blue & Red Defense-of-the-Reich (RVT) Fuselage Bands Flown By Leutnant Hans Dorn Captured At Fassberg, Lower Saxony, Germany May 1945
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Me262A-1a/U4 2nd V4 (KP+OK) WNr.170083 (V083) with Rheinmetall BK5 50mm Cannon (2nd 50mm) Named 'Wilma Jeanne' Then Later, 'Happy Hunter II' Watson's Whizzers #000
Crashed On Ferry Flight to Cherbourg, France
Photo Lechfeld, Lower Saxony, Germany 1945
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Me262B-1a/U1 10./NJG 11 WNr.110305 Red 8 Flown By Oberleutant Kert Welter with FuG218 Neptun Radar & Hirschgeweih
8-Dipole Antenna & FuG350 Naxos ZC Passive Receiver to Detect RAF H2S Radar & Four MK108 30mm Nose Cannons & Two 300-Liter Belly Fuel Tanks Mounted On ETC504 Fuselage Bomb Racks &
White 305 On Right Nose,
RAF AirMin 50 (VH519)
Captured At
Schleswig-Jagel Airfield,
Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany May 1945
Photo At South African National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Me262A-1a Kommando Nowotny Being Towed By Sonderkraftfahrzeug 2 [Sd.Kfz.2] Kettenkrad to Anti-Schrapnel Pen At Hesepe, Germany 1944
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Me262A-1a III./Erganzungsjagdgeschwader 2 [III./EJG 2] ex-Ekdo.262 WNr.111517 with Vertical Yellow Stripe Behind Cockpit In Scrap Yard
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Me262B-1a/U1 10./NJG 11 WNr.110305 Red 8 Flown By Oberleutant Kert Welter with FuG218 Neptun Radar & Hirschgeweih
8-Dipole Antenna & FuG350 Naxos ZC Passive Receiver to Detect RAF H2S Radar & Four MK108 30mm Nose Cannons & Two 300-Liter Belly Fuel Tanks Mounted On ETC504 Fuselage Bomb Racks &
White 305 On Right Nose,
RAF AirMin 50 (VH519)
Captured At
Schleswig-Jagel Airfield,
Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany May 1945
Photo of Open Cockpit At South African National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Me262B-1a/U1 10./NJG 11 WNr.110305 Red 8 Flown By Oberleutant Kert Welter with FuG218 Neptun Radar & Hirschgeweih
8-Dipole Antenna & FuG350 Naxos ZC Passive Receiver to Detect RAF H2S Radar & Four MK108 30mm Nose Cannons & Two 300-Liter Belly Fuel Tanks Mounted On ETC504 Fuselage Bomb Racks &
White 305 On Right Nose,
RAF AirMin 50 (VH519)
Captured At
Schleswig-Jagel Airfield,
Schleswig-Holstein,
Germany May 1945
Photo of Open Cockpit At South African National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg, South Africa
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