Awesome clip of Me 262 & He 219 being strafed by 8th AF aircraft

[Karoband]

Originally Posted by Nick Beale

Faenor: with that Me 262, freezing the picture I think that the canopy may be open. I wouldn’t swear to it at this image quality though. Add to that five(?) more in the hangar and another in the snow-covered revetment.

Hi Nick,

On 13 January 1945, at 13:30 German time, Uffz. Alfred Färber of 1./KG 51 was taking off from Flugplatz Giebelstadt to make a werkstattflug in Me 262 A-1a/Jabo W.Nr. 110601 9K+EH when two American P-51Ds made an extremely low strafing attack. The Americans were 1Lt. Walter J. Konantz in P-51 D "Saturday Night" CL-P and 1Lt. Roy D. Miller in P-51 D "Skylark" CL-S both with the 338 FS/55 FG. These screen shots are taken from Miller's cine film. Konantz shot down and killed Färber just outside the airfield boundary and five aircraft were claimed damaged.

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....&pictureid=962

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....&pictureid=963

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....&pictureid=964

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....&pictureid=965

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....&pictureid=966

best regards,

Jim