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Originally Posted by john70t
The Allies figured out that when trying to land at airports after their missions, the ME262 was a sitting duck when flying low and slow, or lured into a turning fight.
The piston aircraft excelled in those conditions.
Otherwise, the ME262's 540mph top speed in a straight line was better than the P-51's 390mph and the Spitfire's 330mph.
The fighters could dodge them but the Allied bombers were shredded by those 4x30mm cannons in the nose.
Per orders from above the German pilots used them instead as fast bombers, which was useless.
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Several Swallows were shot down by Mustangs during regular ops as well. Sometime the jet pilot did not see the fighter cover in time or got target fixation so not all were lost at the airfield. I believe the Tuskegee Airmen shot down 3 during an escort mission over Berlin.
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