In this gripping WWII reenactment, P-38 Lightning fighters are unexpectedly ambushed by German FW-190s. Witness the intense ...

Eighty-six years ago today, on June 1, 1939, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190-nicknamed the “Shrike”-took to the skies for the first time. Designed by legendary German aeronautical engineer Kurt Tank ...

Notable Fw 190 Facts The aircraft became known as the “Butcher Bird” – and on October 14, 1943, a squadron of Fw 190s decimated U.S. bombers attacking Schweinfurt and Regensburg, shooting ...

In its day, pilots used to call the Focke-Wulf Fw-190 the Würger (Butcher Bird) because it was so adept at shooting down Allied aircraft. But when this 1944 example was pulled from the woods in ...

This particular Fw 190 is the later-model A-8 variety. First leaving German factories in February 1944, just in time to take part in the defense of the Normandy beaches from the Allied invasions ...