Some enlarged and 'tweaked' known photos of Me 262s

[Karoband]

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1074

222. White-surround "26" is seen here as the Me 262 furthest to the right of the front of the Whizzers' hangar, pointing away from it. Beside it, with its tail now on the ground, is Me 262 A-1a white "19" of III./EJG 2 with the simple black hakenkreuz of the 500xxx series. "26" does not seem to have a nosewheel.


http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1075

223. This cropping of the tail from the previous photo has been tweaked to get a view of the werknummer on the tailfin below the tail plane. To my eye, the bottom part of the fifth numeral has a curlicue the same as the first numeral which would make it 500251. An ULTRA decrypt of 4 March 1945 has a '500251' being added to the strength of NAGr. 6 "from industry" (Brown etal.,, p. 29). On 2 March 1945 NAGr. 6 command ordered " aircraft will fly unarmed" which may explain why "26" was captured unarmed and "25" ("Connie") had a dark patch on the nose where the cannon once protruded.


http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1066

224. Like all the Me 262s used for spares at the Whizzers' hangar, "26" was towed behind the building but all the way to the opposite diagonal corner to rest near "V303" with its 170078 tailfin and amid all the other discarded A-1as.