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Sturmovik Killer! Top scoring Fw 190 ace Otto “Bruno” Kittel

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Just after 1000 hours on the morning of July 13, 1943, four Luftwaffe Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-4 fighters of II./JG 54, led by Oberfeldwebel Otto Kittel, were scrambled from strip alert at Orel, on the German Eastern Front in Russia, approximately 220 miles (360 kilometers) south-southwest of Moscow. White A is so close to the camera ship you can hear the roar of its original BMW 801 engine. Fw 190 A-5/U3 Wk.Nr. 151227 flew with...

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