A Fighter to Make the European Skies Nazi - Nazi Rearmament 03 - Bf 109

World War Two – Season 0

The Messerschmitt Bf 109 was designed to solve one of the fundamental problems of modern warfare: how do you gain control of the air long enough for everything else to operate unhindered? Germany’s answer was a fast, heavily armed, highly advanced fighter that became the spearhead of the Luftwaffe’s pursuit of air superiority.