Me 262A-1 of 2./Kommando Nowotny flown by Franz Schall in October, 1944 from Hesepe, Germany. Schall is one of the highest scoring Me 262 pilots, with 14 confirmed victories and another 3 unconfirmed. Schall began his combat flying career in early 1943 with Jg 52 on the Eastern Front, attaining 116 victories there by September, 1944. It was then that he was chosen by Major Walter Nowotny to join the first air combat unit for the new Me 262 jet fighter. Schall scored his first kill in a 262, a B-24, on October 7th and was awarded the Knight Cross on the 10th. Schall was killed on April 10, 1945 when his Jg 7 jet rolled into a bomb crater, and exploded while he was attempted an emergency landing at Parchim, Germany.
