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 so-called “radial-engine fighter” wrecking havoc amid RAF defenses were nothing more than the French Curtiss P-36 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.