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The Fighter Elite
In 1944, the Luftwaffe formed an elite unit of pilots -- the
Jagdverband 44 -- to fly the Me 262 in combat. The unit was
organized by Generalleutnant Adolf Galland, a popular but
obstreperous former flying ace. Galland recruited Experten, the
top aces from piston-driven aircraft, to fly the new jet fighters.
This squadron specialized in attacks on bombers, usually flying
nine aircraft in flights of three and attacking from below and to
the rear. In the final months of the war, with most of their
airfields destroyed, the pilots of JV 44 were often taking off
from the Autobahn. The Allies overran the unit at war's end and
the Messerschmitt Me 262's brief Luftwaffe career was over.