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

[Karoband]

http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1090

238. On 25 April 1945, Ofw.Karl Nitschke of the Lechfeld detachment of 1.(F)/100 took off on an operation in an Ar 234B and landed at Riem as American troops approached. It is likely that Oblt. Willi Benz of the same unit at the same time flew "V555" out to Prag via Horsching to be used for visual recce missions. On 8 May 1945, Benz was one of the last pilots to leave Saaz/Zatec at 19:55 hours with two fellow 1.(F)/100 pilots, Nitschke and a Ofw. Obroth, both crammed into the kanzel. At 20:25 hours, Benz made a skillful belly-landing at Weimar-Nohra.
Note that the roof hatch of the kanzel is ajar and the forward diodes are missing. Likely Baldrian was abandoned by March 1945 with the immanent introduction of the FuG 240 centimetric airborne radar.


http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/album....pictureid=1091

239. This is a view of the cramped nose area of "V555".