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Old 18th January 2023, 11:12
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Re: Some enlarged and 'tweaked' known photos of Me 262s

These screenshots come from the video "1945, March, Germany, Messerschmitt Me262 Aircraft Hidden in Woods" found at the www.pond5.com website.

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1184

313. On 31 March 1945, Messerschmitt Aktiengestellschaft civilian test pilot and technical inspector, 54-year old, Hans Fay, was ordered to fly one of twenty-two airworthy Me 262s at the assembly facility at Schwabisch-Hall to the test centre at Neuburg an der Donau to keep it from falling into Allied hands. The fourth to take off, Fay instead headed north-northwest for 221 Km., landing at the American-held Rhein-Main airfield at 13:45 hours. The Me 262 was quickly taxiied to the forest area and covered with small pine trees as camouflage.


http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1185

314. Major John Gette and a team from the Air Technical Intelligence unit were soon making a preliminary assessment of their prize, removing the freshly cut trees.
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