A German Focke-Wulf FW 190A-8 fighter abandoned on airfield at Steen Okkerzeel, north east of Brussels, Belgium, after it was liberated by British troops. A German single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed in the late 1930s and started flying operationally over France in August 1941 and quickly proved superior in all but turn radius to the Spitfire Mk. V, the main front-line fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), particularly at low and medium 190 maintained superiority over Allied fighters until the introduction of the improved Spitfire Mk. IX.

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Size: 3990px × 3990px
Location: Belgium
Photo credit: © De Luan / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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