Here are some pictures of the Focke-Wulf 190 D-13 captured by the Allies and evaluated back in the United States. Sadly, the Champlin Fighter Museum closed in 2003 and its collection of aircraft moved to the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington.
Flown by Leutnant Theo Nibel, 10./JG 54, Varrelbusch, Germany, Jan 1, 1945. Oberstleutnant Josep ‘Pips’ Priller led Stab./JG 26, I./JG 26, III./JG 54 and 3 instructor pilots from JG 104 into the air at 8:15 a.m. on January 1, 1945. As part of Operation ‘Bodenplatte’, this force of 67 Fw 190D-9’s was to attack the […]
August 15, 1940 1830 – 1930 Hours The weather cooperated again to allow Luftwaffe operations to continue in earnest this Thursday. Luftlotte 2 along with Luftlotte 5 (from bases in Norway) launched no few than 7 separate raids designed to knock Fighter Command out of the war. Luftwaffe historians would later refer to this day […]
