Bf 109 - The Luftwaffe’s Revolution

Subscribe to Dark Skies: Once World War I ended, Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which forbade the nation from maintaining an air force. But when Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s, he began to rebuild the Germanic air force from scratch. One of the earliest aircraft that the German military secretly tested was Willy Messerschmitt’s famous Bf 109. It quickly became one of the most advanced fighters of its time.