ME262 vs Mosquito: Two Accounts of Initial Engagements Between German Jets and Allied Aircraft 1944

Primary Source Monday - Episode #1 Located in Microfilm Reel B5053 is a miscellaneous folder covering Allied encounters with German Rocket and Jet propelled aircraft, collected in order to develop tactics to counter these threatening aircraft types. Among those collected are two accounts from crews flying unarmed photo-reconnaissance Mosquito variants, including the very first ever air-to-air engagement between an Allied Aircraft and a German jet on July 27th 1944. In both cases, skillfully flying by the Mosquito pilots allowed for the unarmed aircraft to survive the encounter and return to base to give the accounts I will now read. 00:00 - Source of accounts 00:31 - First engagement July 27th, 1944 02:37 - Second engagement August 15th, 1944 05:34 - Aftermath Keywords: De Havilland Mosquito, Messerschmidt ME262, ME-262, ME 262, World War Two, 2, II, Schwabe, Luftwaffe, Royal Air Force, South African Air Force, Jet, Germany, Nazi, Pilot Accounts, 1944, 1945, Gun camera,