‘Butcher Bird’ and ‘Airthief’
The Luftwaffe took delivery of its first Focke-Wulf 190 in August 1941, and the aircraft over which the RAF had fretted for some while was finally operational. And they needed to get their hands on an example for evaluation.
A Captive Luftwaffe
One of the RAF’s first encounters with the Focke Wulf 190, or ‘Butcher Bird,’ at the end of September 1941 was entered into with naïve enthusiasm, the British fighterleader involved calling to his pilots:
“Tally Ho! This will be easy, chaps. They’re...
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