Wings Of Glory: Fockewulf Fw-190 D-9 (7./jg 26)

The Focke-Wulf FW-190 Wrger (Shrike) was a German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. The FW-190 D (nicknamed the Dora) was intended to improve on the high-altitude performance of the A-series enough to make it useful against the American heavy bombers. However, the circumstances of the war in late 1944 meant that fighter-versus fighter combat and ground attack missions took priority. Great Aces that gloriously piloted this aircraft included Franz Gtz and Waldemar Wbke.