[Robert A Cook PE]

Two other Me-262 venerable points: High speed meant low, straight, flat glide slopes for landing onto grass runways: P-51 would get them as they approached the airfield landing pattern because they didn't have height to maneuver, and had to line up for the runway a long way out.

Takeoff was slow until they got some altitude because the engines didn't spool up quickly. Many were shot up before getting to high speed/higher altitude.

Fuel (ALWAYS!) was a problem at the end: Not even enough fuel to train pilots, so beginners were killed easy.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. At the beginning of the US involvement in WWII or pilots were inexperienced and would get their asses waxed by the experienced German pilots. But gradually our pilots got more experience and the Germans got less and less experienced pilots as the older ones ran out of luck.