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Butcher Bird Blitz: Focke-Wulf 190 Assault on England


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In October 1942, the Luftwaffe launched a retaliatory raid on England, the largest daylight attack since 1940. The city of Canterbury was assailed by waves of Germany's best fighter-bomber, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190, known appropriately as the 'Butcher Bird', with devastating results.

 

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From the end of June 1942, the Fw 190 A-3/U3 Jabo (Jagdbomber, fighter-bomber) equipped 10.(Jabo)/JG 2 and 10.(Jabo)/JG 26, which operated with considerable success attacking shipping and port towns around the south-eastern coasts of England. These high-speed, low-altitude attacks were almost impossible to defend against, as the Fw 190s came in below effective radar coverage and were often gone before RAF fighters could intercept them. The most successful of these fighter-bomber operations was carried out on 31 October 1942 on Canterbury in retaliation for RAF bombing raids over Germany. In the largest daylight raid mounted by the Luftwaffe since the Battle of Britain, about 70 Fw 190s unloaded 30 bombs on the city, killing 32 people and injuring 116, as well as causing a lot of damage to residential properties and shops. Only one Fw 190 was lost over England.[10][11] The most successful RAF fighters used to intercept these attacks were the Hawker Typhoons and the Griffon-engine Spitfire Mk XIIs, which were both fast enough to catch the Fw 190, especially at low altitudes

 

Using Normandy map, this could be made into some interesting single missions, or mini campaign, for either side really.

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Hello,

 

 

Chriss Goss had written an interesting book on this topic:

http://www.crecy.co.uk/luftwaffe-fighter-bombers-over-britain

 

 

Belly

 

Ah cool, thx for the headsup :thumbup:

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