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Academy 1/72 Messerschmitt Me 262A/1a Schwalbe (12410)

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Academy 1/72 Messerschmitt Me 262A/1a Schwalbe (12410)
Posted by cupofwondering on Thursday, July 5, 2012 2:34 PM

Messerschmitt Me 262A/1a  Schwalbe, jet 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/Ruzyn,

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.

Cheers,

Jan









..... and the real one looks like this:

The Dutch Fokker G-1 Reaper, heavy fighter. If we only would have had more of them back in May 1940....

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