+1

I was helping my daughter on a timeline in aviation project for school and discovered the HE 178 was the first jet aircraft to fly and the ME 262 is the first jet fighter to fly.

Her school notes made no mention of any German accomplishments and gave Great Britain credit for development of the turbine engine when in fact it was independently co-developed by Great Britain and Germany around the same time. I found this disappointing and so we made sure to set the record straight.

As a side note, much of the Saturn V rocket came from German know how but you don't find much credit for that either.