The Race for Hitler's X-Planes

During World War 2, Hitler’s engineers pioneered an incredible array of futuristic secret weapons, from the Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, to the deadly V2 inter-continental ballistic missile. With the Third Reich shattered and lying in ruins, in the summer of 1945, the Allies launched a frantic race to grab what they saw as the justifiable spoils of war.

The Americans and Russians in particular were anxious to secure not only the aircraft and the research and production f…