About This Lesson
During World War II, leaders of Germany’s air force, or Luftwaffe, launch a top-secret aircraft: the Me 262, the world’s first jet engine fighter plane. Pilot Jorg Czypionka flies with a special German unit of Me 262s assigned to hunt down Allied aircraft on their bombing raids over Germany. “Chronicles of Courage: Stories of Wartime and Innovation” is a co-production of Vulcan Productions and NBC Learn.