Messerschmitt Me262A-1a

Jan Voorbij Szerző
Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a Schwalbe
Fighter with Werfer-Granate 21 rocket launcher, also known as the BR 21 (the "BR" standing for Bordrakete) in official Luftwaffe manual.
11./JG7, March 1945, Prague/Rugyn.
Heinz Arnold's "Yellow 7" wears the red/blue identifying band of JG.7, and carried its pilot's kill record just behind this band; the horizontal mark records the forty-two aircraft destroyed with JG.7, and the seven kills while flying the Me 262 are marked vertically. Like many Me 262s ended its war based at Prague; Arnold went missing on a ground attack mission on 17 April, and the pilot who took "Yellow 7" over, Lt. Fritz Muller, surrendered it to Allied forces at Lechfeld on 8 May. After many years it was restored to display condition by the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, where it can be seen today.