Editing Bachem Ba 349 Natter (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Bachem Ba349 rockets.jpg|thumb|240px|right|A captured Ba 349A-1 Natter on display for Open Days at Freeman Field, Indiana, September 1945. The swastikas are neither authentic nor positioned according to German military specifications.]]
By 25 April 1945, [[Free French Forces|French forces]] had captured Waldsee and presumably took control of the Bachem-Werk.<ref>De Lattre de Tassigny 1952, p. 493</ref> Shortly before the French troops arrived, a group of Bachem-Werk personnel set out for Austria with five A1 Natters on trailers.<ref>Lommel 2000, p. 112.</ref><ref>Gooden 2006, p. 106</ref> At [[Bad Wörishofen]], the group waited for another squad retreating from [[Kirchheim unter Teck|Nabern unter Teck]] with one completed Natter. Both groups then set out for the [[Central Eastern Alps|Austrian Alps]]. One group with two Natters ended up at the junction of the river [[Inn (river)|Inn]] and one of its tributaries, the [[Ötztaler Ache]], at Camp Schlatt. The other group went to St. Leonhard im Pitztal with four aircraft. US troops captured the first group at Camp Schlatt around 4 May and the second group on the following day.<ref name="Gooden 2006, pp. 106-107">Gooden 2006, pp. 106–107.</ref>

At some time during the project, the Bachem-Werk was ordered to give complete details of the BP-20 Natter to the Japanese, but there was doubt over whether they had received them. They were, however, known to have a general knowledge of the Natter and showed considerable interest in the project.<ref name="Bratt 1945"/>