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From: swilliam@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Williams)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Jet kills by prop planes
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.031810.20954@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 6 Feb 91 03:18:10 GMT
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From: swilliam@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Williams)

>I remember reading a book by a WWII pilot who flew Hawker Tempest's. He said
>that they occasionally managed to shoot down a ME-262. I think the standard
>technique was to try and get them on their landing approach, although
>anti-aircraft fire made this very risky.

Actually, in the final year of World War II, for every fighter plane
that Germany could send up, the Americans could put up 10 fighters.  
Hence, if there were 10 German fighter planes up in the air, there were 
100 American fighter planes.

It was somewhat like a rabbit hunt - the rabbit could run a lot faster, 
but there were too many hunters, and eventually the rabbit got shot.  
The Me-262 was just like the rabbit; there were simply too many American
fighter planes for the Me-262 to handle.

Hitler's decision to use the Me-262 as a jet bomber didn't help at all.