It first flew in 1935, and like many of its brethren in the Luftwaffe, the Spanish Civil War was its testing ground. When the Second World War began, the Bf 109 proved superior to Allied aircraft ...

General Franco and the Nationalist forces won the Spanish Civil War, which came to an end in early 1939. The violence and atrocities from both sides had left at least 500,000 people dead. "Both ...