Global Connections ✈ MILITARY WORLD #64 ✈ History Hit - Me 262: Hitler's Secret Jet Fighter 🇩🇪 ✈
It was an Me 262 - the world’s first operational jet fighter. 😮
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In July 1942 a German Messerschmitt took off from Leipheim airfield in Bavaria…but it was no ordinary aircraft… Powered by two Junker Jumo 004 turbojet engines and able to travel 120 mph faster than the revered American P-51 Mustang, the Me 262 offered a ray of hope in the increasingly dark skies of the German Luftwaffe.
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