jet 234The Arado Ar 234 B Blitz (Lhtning) was the world's first operational jet bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. Two Junkers Jumo 004 B turbojets powered this clean, gracefulGerman twin-engined, jet-propelled fhter plane, in foreground, and other planes were abandoned by Luftwaffe troops in large hanger of German airfield captured by III Corps, 3rd U.S. Army, at Manching, Germany.