Walter Nowotny death

Walter Nowotny was a person to prove Me-262 is much better and usefull as a fighter not a bomber. He was commander of III/JG6 or “Kommando Nowotny”.

Flying Me-262 Nowotny claimed on 3 air victories, 2 of them on the 8th of November, when during the flight against bombers he crashed. Exact details of his death are still unknown. He reported about two shot down planes (probably B-24 and P-51), afterwards it was unreadable, something like “he is burning” or “I’m burning”. Ground control confirmed they see Me-262A-1 has dived out of the clouds vertically down with its engines burning. Later it was found that Nowotny tried to jump out on about 300-400 meters altitude, but his parachute was hooked by the plane tail.

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