<p>ORIGINAL WWII PHOTO - ORIGINAL TO THE TIME - NOT A COPY, SCAN, OR REPRO</p> <p>QUANTITY: 1 - See the other original WWI & WWII photos that I have listed. </p> <p>ITEM: Original WWII Snapshot Photo of WRECKED GERMAN FIGHTERS & BOMBERS at GARDELEGEN AIRPORT, Germany, April 1945. </p>...
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FE-610 Messerschmitt Me262B-1a/U1 WkNr 110306) 'Red 6' 10/NJG11, Luftwaffe. Surrendered to RAF at Schleswig-Jagel, Germany, it was transferred to the USAAF, becoming Watson's Whizzers '999', before being shipped to the US. Evaluated as FE-610, but later e-serialed T-2-610 it was named "Ole Fruit Cake" and "Schwalbe". Scrapped at Freeman Field, IN, circa 1950.
262A-1a/U3 (WkNr. 500453) unarmed reconnaissance variant. When first recovered by the Americans, it was named Connie...the Sharp Article and then a bit later Pick II. After arriving at Newark on the Reaper on 1 August 1945, the squadron was ferried to a small, little-known airport call Freeman Field in Indiana on 19 August, where the planes were put through their paces and their capabilities were explored. The testing was coordiated by T-2 at Wright Field. Our plane received the designation FE-4012 when it arrived in the US (FE=Foreign Equipment), and once the testing got underway, this was changed to T-2-4012.