"Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be"

-Adolf Galland

In the freezing pre-dawn hours of November 2, 1944, the US Eighth Air Force launched a massive, high-altitude strategic bombing raid targeted at Germany's vital synthetic fuel plants. To counter the incoming swarm of B-17 Flying Fortresses and P-51 Mustang escorts, the Luftwaffe scrambled everything that could fly.

Among them was the late-war vanguard of Jagdgeschwader 77 ; piloting the new Messerschmitt Bf-109 K-4 "Kurfürst". A brutal, twisting dogfight ensued at 25,000 feet. A single devastating 88mm burst sheared through your Mustang, but you managed to land it on the freezing field, the same did Emma Fischer...