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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
This is a rare photo, and never published that I know of on the internet. The pilot on the left is a friend of mine, a FW-190 pilot. Rest of the story is private but this was taken in 1944 "on duty" so to speak. The -190 was not called the "Butcher Bird" for nothing. It was a very good fighter for its time.
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Not to be pedantic - but the FW-190 was never called the "butcher bird". It was, in German, referred to as the "Schlachtvogel" - which correctly translates as "battle bird".
(Although a "schlachter" is a butcher in English - "schlacht" here means battle. A "butcherbird" would be "schlachtervogel" in German - which makes little sense.)