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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Brewster Buffalo (was: draft)
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Date: 12 Dec 90 03:14:21 GMT
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From: fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)

> From: kiravuo@hila.hut.fi (Timo Kiravuo)
> 
> biography of captain Hasse Wind, our top ace in WWII (75 drops).
> What follows is taken from the book (Hasse Wind, Havittajalentaja
> by Borje Sjogren) and badly translated by me.
> [...]
> The [Brewster Buffalo] BW-393 got 41 drops, 29 by Hasse Wind. 

> Hasse Wind dropped some Hurricanes and Spitfires while flying
> Brewster, too. 

??!!  Who was flying Hurricanes and Spitfires where a Finn would
have a shot at them?

> Wind's style was to go straight for the enemy. Unlike flight
> master Eino Juutilainen, who used to wait for the right moment
> and then hit. Juutilainen had 74 drops in WWII.

Another Finnish pilot that you might find a book about/by would
be Eino Luukkanen ("Fighter Over Finland"). I don't have it, just
a cited reference in another book.  He flew the Buffalo, too.

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