Jets
Some of the most interesting (and surely terrifying) missions flown by the 448th saw them come under attack by the German jet fighter the Me262. A generally little known but much lauded aircraft among fans the Schwalbe (Swallow) prooved to be a dangerous foe for American bomber crews on their daylight bombing raids. Luckily for them it’s production and implementation in the war was bungled and mismanaged meaning encounters with them were relatively rare.
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