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Clint Mitchell
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Me262B-1a/U1, WNr.110305 ‘Red 8’

Several two-seat trainer variants of the Me262, the Me262B-1a, had been adapted through the Umrüst-Bausatz 1 factory refit package as night fighters, complete with on-board FuG218 Neptun high-VHF band radar, using Hirschgeweih (“stag’s antlers”) antennae with a set of shorter dipole elements than the Lichtenstein SN-2 had used, as the Me262B-1a/U1 version. Serving with 10./NG11, near Berlin, these few aircraft (alongside several single-seat examples) accounted for most of the 13 Mosquitoes lost over Berlin in the first three months of 1945. Wiki