re: History in Pictures is a great twitter feed. Here is one just posted.

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And had Hitler used the 262 as intended, things would have been a whole lot worse.

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Meh - too little, too late. The Allies would have adapted. The 262 flew first, what, in the summer of 1942 with the jet engines? They didn't go operational until April 1944.

Even if they had started operting in the Spring of '43 - they would have slowed down U.S. daylight bombing - perhaps even suspended it. Wouldn't have impacted Overlord, couldn't have gone back in time and won Stalingrad.

Would have resulted in (maybe) a few hundred, maybe 1000, more dead 8th Air Force crewmembers and a few dozen allied fighters. With our equipment at the time, we still destroyed 100 262s in the air.