This aircraft, Blue 4, was built in July–August 1944 and flown by Rudi Linz. It was lost on February 9, 1945, defending against an Allied raid in Norway.
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Focke-Wulf
Fw 190 A-8
The Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Würger was a single-seat, single-engine fighter designed by Kurt Tank in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II. Some 900 Fw 190 A-8s were built by Fiesler at Kassel with 30mm MK 108s autocannons installed in their outer wing panel mounts. While formidable bomber-killers, the armour and substantial up-gunning with heavier caliber firepower meant the Fw 190 was now cumbersome to manoeuvre. Vulnerable to Allied fighters, they had to be escorted by Bf 109s.