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    ISR Tour: Me 262

    ISR Tour: Me 262

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    DAYTON, OH, UNITED STATES

    05.23.2013

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    National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

    The world’s first operational jet fighter was the Me 262A-1. On 16 May 1945, technical intelligence personnel found this aircraft at Munich-Riem airfield where fighter ace Adolph Galland’s Jagdverband (JV) 44 left it behind as the unit fled to Austria. Personnel of the 54th Air Disarmament Squadron named it Beverly Anne and it became one of 10 Watson’s Whizzers aircraft returned to the US at the end of the war. While being ferried from Lechfeld, Germany, to Cherbourg, France it stopped at Melun, France. It was there that Beverly Anne became Screamin’ Meemie. Lieutenant Bob Strobell named it that because of the sound it made. On 27 June 1945, this jet served as the lead ship in an aerial exhibition for General Carl Spaatz. After arrival in the U.S. it went to the U.S. Navy, along with four other Me 262s, serving at Patuxent Naval Air Station.

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    Date Taken: 05.23.2013
    Date Posted: 07.30.2015 11:42
    Category: Recording
    Audio ID: 41604
    Filename: 1507/DOD_102629196.mp3
    Length: 00:01:24
    Album ISR Tour
    Track # 26
    Location: DAYTON, OH, US

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