While the numbers may be inflated, Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the Me 262 shot down 542 Allied aircraft during the war. Nazi Germany has long been begrudgingly admired for its technological ...

While it wasn't the first jet-engined aircraft that flew, the ME-262 was the first operational jet-fighter. So many technical and political troubles struck its development that it began its career as ...

In summer 1944, the Nazis debuted one of the many advanced weapons they devised during World War II: the Messerschmitt Me 262. The Me 262 was the first operational fighter jet in history, and while it ...

As Nazi Germany made its last desperate attempts to continue its reign of terror in Europe, brave Queensland airmen risked their lives shooting down a weapon that ...

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe was the first German jet fighter used in World War II. Photo: Bettmann / Corbis 1942: The third prototype of the Messerschmitt 262 becomes the first true operational ...

This Second World War Messerschmitt Me 262 has been transported by road to its new home at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford. This particular aircraft, Messerschmitt Me 262A-2a Schwalbe, can already ...

As Nazi Germany made its last desperate attempts to continue its reign of terror in Europe, brave Queensland airmen risked their lives shooting down a weapon that ...