M-262 shot down April 13th or 18th 1945 by 325th FG at Regensburg Airport. Can anyone confirm details or date please?

[Mysticpuma]

Hello, I wonder if anyone can supply an accurate date or details regarding the shooting down of an Me-262 at Regensburg Airport on either the 13th or 18th of April 1945 by P-51's of the 325th FG / 319th Fighter Squadron.

I am currently talking with a pilot who was involved in that event and would (for now) rather not share his thoughts as the 'Victory' was credited to Ralph Taylor on the 19th of April 1945.

The pilot tells me;

"We dove straight down and as we flew over the airport another ME-262 was taking off. Ralph fired on the ME-262 and then the ME-262 started climbing to the right. Since I was on Ralph's right wing that put me directly behind the ME-262 and I fired my guns and saw many hits. The pilot of the ME-262 burst off his canopy and then bailed out. I had to do a drastic turn to the left to miss the pilot as his parachute was just trailing and hadn't yet flared out. The German pilot landed safely however, the airplane crashed and exploded. As I passed over the airfield at an airspeed over 500 mph and at an altitude of less than 50 feet my airplane had received 40 mm shells in my fuselage, tail. and one of my props."

Can anyone tell me what date this is thought to have happened (from Luftwaffe records) and maybe what Unit was based, aircraft was lost (262) on either the 13th or 18th at that Airfield.

I tend to think it was the 18th, but any help would be much appreciated.

Best wishes and thanks for any help in advance, MP