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From: kiravuo@hila.hut.fi (Timo Kiravuo)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Brewster Buffalo
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.045101.26232@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 17 Dec 90 04:51:01 GMT
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From: kiravuo@hila.hut.fi (Timo Kiravuo)
In article <1990Dec12.031421.10406@cbnews.att.com> fiddler@Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
>??!!  Who was flying Hurricanes and Spitfires where a Finn would
>have a shot at them?

The Soviets, of course. 

According to Risto Pajari's "Jatkosota ilmassa" Soviet Union
received planes from the Allies as follows, copied verbatim:

P-39 Airacobra		5 700
P-63 Kingcobra		2 400
P-40 Tomahawk
     Warhawk		2 400
P-47 Thunderbolt	  195
Hurricane		2 950
Spitfire		1 330

Borje Sjogren's "Hasse Wind, Havittajalentaja" quotes about the
same numbers. The latter book also mentions that most of the
planes were stored for an invasion to Japan and never used. 

>Another Finnish pilot that you might find a book about/by would
>be Eino Luukkanen ("Fighter Over Finland"). I don't have it, just

He is the third ranking Finnish ace with 54 drops. I'll see what
the local library has to offer.
--
Timo Kiravuo, kiravuo@hut.fi
Helsinki University of Technology, Computer Center, Finland