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105. In this photo of the line-up on the right side of the taxiway at Leck, "Yellow 7" is the eighteenth He 162, situated on the port side of white-nosed "Yellow 3". Wollenweber, p. 138, identifies it as "White 7" W.Nr. 120222, but Franks, p. 26, gives it as "Yellow 7", explaining "... (period colour images survive that confirm this, although the character was thinly outlined in white)."
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106. This is a cropping of a photo already seen of "Yellow 3" with its white nose. In the background, "Yellow 7" is seen with a bare metal rear fuselage and RLM 76 tail fin. The upper dark camouflage on the Lippisch "ear" seems to have scalloped edges. Taken after the arrival of the British, "Yellow 7" is now pictured on the starboard side of "Yellow 3".
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107. Allocated to the Americans, W.Nr. 120222 was one of three He 162s chosen by Col. Harold E. Watson for
Operation Lusty tat was disassembled, separately crated and shipped overland to Cherbourg, France. It arrived in New Jersey about 31 July 1945 aboard Liberty Ship
Richard J. Gatling and was sent overland to Freeman Field at Seymour, Indiana, to be reassembled. Here, its modules became mixed with those of other He 162s and extra spares. In this photo of the static display at the Freeman Field Air Show, 22-30 September 1945, the fuselage of W.Nr. 120222is identified by the handwritten black digits "222" that were commonly painted on the bare metal side of the starboard rear fuselage just in front of the joint of the tail module. Some GI has scratched the "120067"
werknummer of the wing into the dark camo of the Lippisch "ear". The replacement tail seen here is identical to the one on the fuselage of W.Nr. 120067 when it was in Kassel, Germany.
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108. This colour photograph confirms Franks' comment on the "Yellow 7" having a thin white surround. Note the shade of yellow is not orange yellow.
According to Joe Baugher, W.Nr. 120222 was given the American designation FE-493 and later recoded T-2-493. On p.28, Franks concludes that this airframe was among those aircraft scrapped (buried?) at Freeman Field.
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109. Tony Kambic was kind enough to send me this photo of "Yellow 23" wearing the tail module of W.Nr. 120222 that he took at NASM about ten years ago.
I pondered the reason for the hinged wing and Tony explained that "they were hand sawn off to fit on a trailer or something to transport. So my understanding was that they were attached with basic hinges so it could be displayed later. Very crude."
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110. This photo confirms Tony's explanation.