He-162 It did See Combat!,Possable Perk?

[brady]

  Well for starters this was news to me(ok maybe I have been under a rock   ),I had always read it was rumored to have Sean combat.
  Anyway in the book "Luftwaffe Album" by Joachim Dressel & Manfred Griel on p.145 it tell's how Lt. R. Schmidt shot down a Typhoon on the 4th of May 1945 near Lech, apparently the British pilot parachuted and was taken prisoner and made a guest in the officers mess.
  The unit was I Grupe of JG Iwhich had 40 He 162 on hand, 30 of which were operational. Apparently they had been conducting operations since the 11th of April 1945.
  Also of note is the II and III Grupe of JG I were at Partachim and Heidfeild near Viena, apparently working up.
  The aircraft used in the Kill was the A-2 with 2 20m MG 151/20's.

    Thought this was cool enough to Post it   , what do all think can we Perk it???  

                    Brady
 
 
 

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[Westy]

 I'd heard/read the HE-162 was flown from 17 April 1945 on and it did have one combat loss as well as one aerial kill - that Typhoon.

 -Westy

[Nath-BDP]

The P51H will be here and it saw NO combat, I sure as hell hope we will get the He 162.

[Karnak]

I'd like to see the He162A-2 as one of the jet perks, along with the obvious Me262A as well as the Ar234 and Gloster Meteor MkIII.

Me163 Komet and Ohka + G4M "Betty" would be great rocket perks.

Sisu
-Karnak

[brady]

He-162 saw the action with the preproduction versions (V-) and then A1 and A2 series. First V-versions saw the battle trials against US and UK bombers. One pilot of P-51 fixed on the gun camera his unsuccessful shots to He-162 and in film is possible to see how fast was this plane  

In East Prussia were located more then 50 units, which were in action against Russian troops and bombers. There were shot down 4 of them and at least 4-5 were lost in accidents over home base airfield. When Russian troops were already near the airfield, all planes that were able to fly and which has fuel where relocated back to Germany. Almost all others there were destroyed, except several.... Russian troops so fast captured this airfield...

One Russian pilot, who visited this airfield, tried to evaluate one of captured He-162. He was ejected by catapult, because he wasn't known what the 'red' button is.... Such trial cost him 5 month in hospital

this is from a form for Il-2 strumavik and posted by Oleg Maddox ....

               Brady

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[juzz]

19th April 1945, Tempest shoots down He 162.
3 May 1945, He 162 shoots down Tempest(misidentified as Typhoon).

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[Westy]

"The P51H will be here and it saw NO combat"

 Sucks don't it?? lol  Ahh. P-51H. Can't wait!    F8F, can't wait!   P-47 M is to die for! Mmmmhmm. You guessed it. Can't wait again!  
 
 They were deployed and weren't needed. That says it all  

  -Westy

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[Nath-BDP]

Why are you so jealous of me westy?

[SKurj]

well o course it will be a possible perk, i think ya can likely bet on it...
Perk permits many "what if planes" slipped into the set as well as some rare birds as well.

IMO

AKskurj

[Animal]

I would love to see that in the arena..

Me-410 first. lw nees jabo.

[brady]

 Whats all this about the P51H???,did i miss somthing ? are they going to add "another US plane?"


      Brady

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[TheWobble]

that thing reminds me of an a-10 warthog for some reason..  

[juzz]

P-51H was listed in Pyros plane poll - implies that it will be added one day.

[funked]

Don't forget the Meteor.  

[Sancho]

 

Originally posted by Westy:
" Sucks don't it?? lol  Ahh. P-51H. Can't wait!      F8F, can't wait!     P-47 M is to die for! Mmmmhmm. You guessed it. Can't wait again!    
 
 They were deployed and weren't needed. That says it all    "

Westy, I'm not sure if you're trying to say that the P-47M didn't see action... I think the P-51H and F8F didn't.

Just to set the record straight, the P-47M was flown only by the 56th FG, first on 14 January 1945.  Considerable teething problems with this new type slowed its widespread usage, and it wasn't until March 14th that the 56th was able to mount a squadron size flight of P-47Ms.  Here's a snippet of that mission log (note: another perk plane hiding in it   ):

 

"A" Group had picked up the Liberators at the same time, but they continued on with them until 1625 near Koblenz.  At this time the 63rd FS broke off to head for home, only seeing five jets of an undetermined type that were not encountered.  Williamson, meanwhile, took the 62nd FS to Frankfurt, back to Holzwickede, and then turned them south to discover two flights of the rare Arado 234 jet bombers.

"Blue Flight, led by Lt. Sandborn Ball, started the chase, and Ball and his wingman, Lt. Warren Lear shared in the destruction of one.  1st Lt. Norman Gould, Red Three, knocked down another after closing and setting its right engine on fire, backing away, and then reclosing and firing again on it to set the other engine on fire.  It spun in.  This was Gould's fourth and last kill."
--From Beware the Thunderbolt