The skies over southern Germany in late July 1944 would become the stage for a moment that would forever alter the course of aerial combat. American P-47 Thunderbolt pilots, on a routine mission, suddenly found themselves face-to-face with an aircraft unlike any they had encountered before: the German Messerschmitt Me 262, one of the world’s first operational jet fighter. #ww2 #military #aviation #aircraft | Jets 'n' Props

82K views · 9.1K reactions | Via @druid_works. Restored footage from WW2, 1944, showing air combat between fighter planes. LT John A Kirla flying a P-51 Mustang gets on the tail of a Bf 109 and fires on it, chasing the aircraft to low altitude and shooting it down. | Historyfeels | Facebook