The US Air Force Museum boasts the world's greatest aircraft displays with some of its rarest and most iconic aircraft.

While the numbers may be inflated, Luftwaffe pilots claimed that the Me 262 shot down 542 Allied aircraft during the war.

The Smithsonian Museum is famously home to a rewarding array ... Once the Americans learned Germany was preparing to field the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter (the world's first jet fighter ...

98 Mosquito courtesy of Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum, and the museum's 1:1 full scale replica of the first ...