Tables
Foreword
Introduction
CHAPTER 1
Too Little, Too Late
CHAPTER 2
On the Drawing Board
CHAPTER 3
Test Flights
CHAPTER 4
In the Field
CHAPTER 5
Competition and Innovation
CHAPTER 6
The Stormbird Takes Wing
CHAPTER 7
A Questionable Political Decision
CHAPTER 8
First Encounters
CHAPTER 9
Challenges of the Jet
CHAPTER 10
Night and Day
CHAPTER 11
Fighting the Fighters
CHAPTER 12
Fighting the Bombers
CHAPTER 13
Kommando Nowotny
CHAPTER 14
The Death of Nowotny
CHAPTER 15
Kommando Nowotny Carries On
CHAPTER 16
Victories in the Face of Defeat
CHAPTER 17
Allied Forces Fight Back
CHAPTER 18
The Last Death Throes of JG-7
CHAPTER 19
Galland and the Squadron of Experts
CHAPTER 20
The Loss of Steinhoff
CHAPTER 21
Back in the Air
CHAPTER 22
Galland’s Last Mission
CHAPTER 23
The End of the War and JV-44
CHAPTER 24
Operations Lusty and Paperclip: The Postwar Scramble for Jets
Appendix 1
My Last Mission
BY JOE PETERBURS
Appendix 2
German Ranks and Medals
Appendix 3
Additional Me 262 Data
PHOTOGRAPHS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
Acknowledgments
Copyright
Notes
