On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 11:17:48 -0400, you wrote: >Mark Roberts wrote: >> >> Wow. I just thought of some other WWII trivia that's been kicking >> around my brain for who-knows-how-many years: Tomorrow, 4 October, >> marks the..... 62nd (had to stop and work it out).... anniversary of >> the first time a jet aircraft was shot down in combat. The jet was, of >> course, a Messerschmitt 262 and the plane that (somehow) succeeded in >> shooting it down was a Spitfire Mk XIV. > >That's pretty cool. Chuck Yeager shot one down in his P-51D Mustang. >Most 262s were vulnerable during landing and I -believe- that the only >ones shot down were in the process of landing. Kinda unsporting, but it >counts as a "kill" :-)
I just did a little digging and found, much to my surprise, that my mnemory was correct (though some sources say it was 05 October). I should point out that this was the first jet to be shot down by another *fighter* plane. I assume this means some got caught in crossfire while going through bomber formations earlier. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
