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Originally Posted by HAHalliday
I am especially indebted to Kutscha for details.
Since the Luftwaffe is NOT my specialty and the facts I seek will constitute roughly two sentences in a 2,500 word article, I sought to avoid purchasing Dan O'Connell's "Me 262 Production Log". Useful though it would have been for this task, it would nevertheless have become an instant repository for dust in my basement.
My local air museum did not have O'Connell and so I took to this board.
Call me a cheap s.o.b. if you wish.
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OK, you are a cheap S.O.B. :-)
Actually, I now have 1,224 documented Me 262's by Werk Nummer, let alone hundreds with out any way to determine.
Most were used in service, although I've never gotten around to making up the stats on "front line use" vs accidents, etc.
Knowing the missing numbers in the WNr sequences, it is obvious that far more were made than the oft quoted number of 1,432, which actually is the number that the Messerschmitt company told the US Strategic Bombing Survey that they were paid for.
Dan O'Connell Messerschmitt Me 262 The Production Log 1941 - 1945