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 ...