Ever heard about the year 1945? No? Mostly there were bomber swarms with 1000 b17/b24 escorted by 1000 fighters. Mostly only 20 me 262 fought against those swarms because the props werent able to survive up there against such an enemy. Still the me 262 had a positive kill to death ratio. Those pilots in 1945 that fought until the 8th mai 1945 the last day were heros. Most of them said in 1945 it was absolutly clear there was nothing to win but they took off with their planes everyday to provide the civilists with much time to escape from the russians. They risked their live every day to save civilists. In april 1945 the ammo and fuel supply completly died. The were flying with the last reserves. In on the 30th april the wasslow troops changes sides and fought against germany with good equipment like tigers and bf 109. The airfield of the Jagdgschwader 7 has been surrounded and was a own country. The pilot and mechanics without work took a karabiner 98 and sat in the trenches. The anti air guns were anti human guns and hit back when troops wanted to attack the airfield. During that until 8th mai me 262 took of and shot down enemys every day every hour. The last sortie was on the 8th at 15:30 two me 262 thats means one rotte took off during the battle for the airfield and on point 16:00 one me 262 shot down one yak 9. That was the last kill of the Luftwaffe. During that time my grandpa walked out of the lazarett north of vienna after getting shot by the 23mm guns of an IL2. On his own he wanted to get home buz he was in the russian zone of austria. He was still wearing the wehrmacht uniform on the 14th may. On his own he got to the us zone of austria without getting shot by a russian. He had to cross a bride to get in the us zone but the persons walking over it were strictly controlled and he had no discharge papers. One day a women saw him and said you have to get civil clothes and gave him civil clothes. Then he wrote something on a letter and walked into the us zone inmiddle of a groop of wehrmacht soldiers with discharge papers and he made it. My grandpa was at the volkssturm. He was moved in in ?march? 1945 the third set of the volkssturm.