Allied air services were also equipped with the new fighter.
The new fighters were delivered in batches of six on 20 and 22 May.
"I saw the new fighters coming in for a landing," Moss said.
A number of new fighter and bomber aircraft were being designed in the years before the war.
The design was a response to a 1943 specification for a new heavy fighter with great range.
Horst and I were in the air, among two dozen new fighters.
"How do you like the numbers on the new fighter?"
In 1998, the air force did not acquire a single new fighter.
He had videotaped the new fighters taking off and landing.
And the new fighters would need thirty minutes to get low enough to be able to take part in the battle once they were launched.