[David E. Brown]

Hi Jim,

Thanks for your efforts in trying to bring out the best of these images. It is appreciated.

I have a few comments regarding several of the machines in your recent postings:

Photo Numbers 115-117
Red 3: Most probably another single seat A-1a operating with 10./NJG 11. It was found adjacent to the Hamburg-Lübeck autobahn at Reinfeld. Of the number of photos taken of it one shows the aircraft with very muddy front and right tires. This observation, plus its location make it quite likely that this is the Me 262 that Lt. Kurt Lamm deliberately steered off the autobahn (April 30?). This machine may have been the aircraft Lamm flew from Zerbst as WNr.110955 is known to have been flown from Kahla to Zerbst on 13 March 1945 by Günther Tippel.

Photo Numbers 129-134
White 12: Possibly WNr.111730 based on a poor quality photograph, and comparison of its camouflage and markings styles with other related JV 44 Me 262s (e.g. 111704, 111740, 111745, 110746). This Werknummer is listed on the 26 April 1945 München-Riem Me 262 document under the heading “J.V.44”. However, there are a significant number of transcription errors in this document and it is possible that the Werknummer is 111733 (the photo suggested this is the number).

Red 1: The markings indicate that aircraft was an ex-2./KG 51 aircraft, and its Werknummer 110730 is visible in one of the Innsbruck-Hötting photographs. But it was later with II./Ausbildungs-Kommando KG(J) 54. On 21 April 1945 was at Prag-Rusin and listed in a document of that date and identified by its Werknummer and marking ("Rote 1”).

“Red 1’s” Werknummer is not on the 26 April 1945 München-Riem Me 262 document as one of the 12 (9 confirmed / 3 questionable) Me 262s listed under the JV heading and identified with a hand-written notation as “I./KG 51” aircraft. These were transferred to JV 44 a few days previously but then transferred back to KG 51 and ordered returned to Prague. “Red 1” must have come from elsewhere or was already in Prague.

Best,

David