Two different aircraft, the top one is "Messerschmitt Me 262A-1a/U3 (Wk. Nr. 500098), "White 27", reconnaissance version modified with bulges on the nose to accommodate film magazines for two Rb 20/30 cameras. U3 (Umrüst-Bausatz 3, Factory Modification Kit No. 3). "White 27" was collected at Lechfeld by the "Feudin 54th A.D. Sq", as painted on the starboard side by MSgt Eugene Freiburger, USAAF. Watson's Whizzers No. 666, painted as "Joanne", later "Cookie VII". "White 27" was flown to Melun, then Cherbourg, France. Shipped to the USA on HMS Reaper, this aircraft was allocated Foreign Equipment number FE-4011. "White 27" crashed at Pittsburgh on 19 Aug 1945."
The bottom one is,"Messerschmitt Me 262B-1a/U1 (Wk. Nr. 110306), "Red 6", 10./NJGJ11, two-seat trainer converted into a provisional night fighter version equipped with FuG 218 Neptun radar and Hirschgeweih (stag antler) eight-dipole antenna array. Seven of these aircraft were used by 10/NJG.II in the defence of Berlin in April 1945. "Red 6" was surrendered to the RAF at Schleswig-Jagel, Germany. It was transferred to the USAAF and became Watson's Whizzers 999. It was shipped to the USA on HMS Reaper and then allocated FE-610, later T2-610. Later named "Ole Fruit Cake", and "der Schwalbe". FE-610 was scrapped at Freeman Field, Indiana, circa 1950."
_________________ When I was young "sex was safe & flying was dangerous".
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