Dornier Do-335 &quot;Pfeil&quot; Experimental fighter bomber. Powerfuly armed with 1 engine mounted MK108 30mm cannon and 2 wing mounted MG151 20mm cannons. The maximum speed was 765 km/h (434 mph) powered by two 12 cyl. DB603 1750hp each. could carry a bombload up to 1000 kg (2200lb).

Pfeil (Arrow)

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Do-335. It never reached operational status and only about 39 were built. But it had occasional encounters with Allied fighters as the one narrated by the French ace Pierre Clostermann who claimed the first Allied combat encounter with a Pfeil in April 1945. In his book The Big Show (pages 273-274) he describes leading a flight of four Hawker Tempests from No. 3 Squadron RAF over northern Germany, when he intercepted a lone Do 335 flying at maximum speed at treetop level. Detecting the British aircraft, the German pilot reversed course to evade. Despite the Tempest's considerable low altitude speed, the RAF fighters were not able to catch up or even get into firing position.