By the end of the battle in October, the Luftwaffe had lost 650 109s despite being acknowledged as superior to the RAFs Hurricanes and equal to the Spitfire. Despite this, the 109 and Focke-Wulf 190, ...

Operational History and Combat Performance. The “Flying Pencil” was first “blooded” in combat in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War as part of the Luftwaffe’s Condor Legion that fought on ...