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Alfred Schreiber (nicknamed "Bubi") (11 November 1923 in Keplachowitz – 26 November 1944) was a former German Luftwaffe fighter ace. He is noted for claiming the first aerial victory by a Jet fighter in aviation history.
On 26 July 1944 Leutnant Schreiber, a former ZG 26 pilot, intercepted and attacked a No. 540 Squadron RAF Mosquito PR XVI, a reconnaissance aircraft, while flying Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1a W.Nr. 130 017. It is often referred to as the first aerial victory by a jet fighter in aviation history.[1] Although damaged, the Mosquito, did in fact, manage to return to an Allied held airfield in Italy and was lost in the crash landing.[2] Schreiber would be credited with a further four aerial victories before being killed on 26 November 1944 making him one of the first Jet aces in history.[3] Schreiber was killed in a crash landing at Lechfeld flying the same Me 262 A-1a WNr. 130 017. His wheels had caught the lip of a slit trench causing his Me 262 to cartwheel.[4]
[edit] Aerial victories
Schreiber submitted the following claims.[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Radinger & Schick 1993, p. 51.
- ^ Morgan & Weal 1998, p. 16–17.
- ^ For a list of Luftwaffe Jet aces see List of German World War II jet aces
- ^ Morgan & Weal 1998, p. 92.
- ^ Morgan & Weal 1998, p. 16, 18, 26.
- Morgan, Hugh & Weal, John (1998). German Jet Aces of World War 2. London: Orsprey Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-85532-634-5.
- Radinger, Willy & Schick, Walther (1993). Messerschmitt Me 262 Development Testing Production. Schiffer Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-88740-516-9.
