While the numbers may be inflated, Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the Me 262 shot down 542 Allied aircraft during the war.

The Me 262 and Gloster Meteor are among the first military jets ever conceived during WW2, but neither plane actually met the other in a dogfight.

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwable was the world's first operational jet aircraft and was powered by an engine designed by Hans von Ohain in 1936.