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250. This photo shows that the block and tackle has been used to raise the Me 262 onto wood trestles and to lower the detached port engine onto a wooden pallet. Note the heavy wooden steps up to the starboard wing. It seems that a lot of effort went into it.
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251. This is a good view of American servicemen with the Me 262 A-2 atop its wooden base in the summer of 1945. Note the cosmetic covering of the base of the fin and the red "J" visible on the nosewheel door.
Under pure speculation: from Jan Horn's
Das Flurschaden Geschwader..., page 302:
"Die Stärkemeldung der II./KG 51 vom 23. April 1945 um 08:30 Uhr gibt an:
'Flugzeuge gesamt: 1 (Werk-Nr. 110961)'".
See Dan O'Connell,
Production Log, page 119, for a note on the missing bomb racks of 110961.