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.

The Focke-Wulf 190 was the fastest, most agile, and most versatile aircraft in the world as it entered the Western Front, and its debut would bring the RAF to its knees and briefly shatter British air superiority over the English Channel.

The clock was now ticking as the West desperately raced to develop something that could counter the might of the German Butcher Bird…

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