Display Status:

This object is not on display at the National Air and Space Museum. It is either on loan or in storage.

Collection Item Summary:

A U. S. service man stands on the wing of a Messerschmitt Me 262, circa 1945. The plane appears to have been stripped.

Collection Item Long Description:

Topic

  • Aeronautics
  • Airplanes
  • World War, 1939-1945

Data Source

National Air and Space Museum Archives

Restrictions & Rights

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photographer

Unknown

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Date

Circa 1945

Repository Loc.

National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division, MRC 322, Washington, DC, 20560

Type

Photographs

Local number

NASM-7A33355

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