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The P-80 might not have seen any action but the Gloster Meteor was introduced into service in July 1944 and saw a fair bit of combat through to the end of the war in Europe. Not a massive impact and wasn't really that important in the grand scheme of things, but it's still an allied jet powered plane that made some contribution to the war effort.

It says "aircraft engine" for me

You're both right, it says aircraft engine in the article body but jet engine in the pull quote. They caught the error but forgot to update the latter.

great catch - deff seems inaccurate of a statement (more like lack of jet engine used against)

tangentially, had to dig up https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37945006 as it triggered the ol brain

They had an impact, just in the wrong way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262