WWII Aviation: German Jets & V1 and V2 Flying Bombs

The assumption that the RAF's reconnaissance aircraft, the Mosquito, could continue to range across Germany with impunity, was shattered on 25th July 1944. A Mosquito belonging to the No.544 squadron barely escaped destruction after having been attacked in the first air-to-air encounter with the revolutionary new German fighter, the Messerschmitt Me-262.
The Me-262 represented a new generation of highly advanced combat types, employing jet and rocket propulsion.

Paralleling these aircraft types in 1945 were the first of Hitler's revenge weapons, the V-1 Flying Bomb and the advanced V-2 Rocket, that were intended to turn the tide of the war.