The Butcher Bird Focke Wulf Fw 190

It was the summer of 1941, and the Royal Air Force was shocked to its core before the troublesome reports of a new devastating German fighter aircraft shredded through its squadrons. At first, the Allies believed that the reports of a powerful socalled radialengine fighter wrecking havoc amid RAF defenses were nothing more than the French Curtiss P36 Mohawks that had been captured by the Germans. However, when they learned that even the Mighty Spitfire Mark V was being utterly outclassed by the novel German fighter, they knew they were facing an unprecedented feat of German engineering.