Helgenen #10/1988

In the final days of the war, an officer of the JV-44 Commando Fighter Group stands by his ME-262, haunted by the memory of its promise—how, in 1938, General Galland had tested the revolutionary jet and been awed by its speed and power. But Hitler, blind to its potential as a true fighter, demanded it be used as a bomber, delaying its deployment and dooming it to obsolescence. Now, with the war lost and orders to destroy it, the officer faces the weight of what might have been—a machine ahead of its time, sacrificed by a leader who never saw it clearly.