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Tuomo Vornanen -> (6/25/2001 1:24:00 AM)
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Originally posted by m10bob:
In the mid sixties,an english magazine taught us about the great Finnish flier/patriot Eino Lukaanen.(I've seen it spelled other ways as well..)..This man must have truly been a great pilot and fearless warrior,especially once you know his plane was the "BREWSTER BUFFALO",a fat pig of a plane which has been desribed as being too unmaneuverable to get out of it's own way!..I also saw recently where a BUFFALO had been fished out of a Finnish(or Russian?)lake and is being preserved....I would much like to see it....(You can see the videos of it's salvage by typing "Brewster Buffalo" into your browser and following the guides...)......bob :)
Krhm, you probably mean Eino Luukkanen, and he was, if I remember correctly, the commander of the 34th Fighter Squadron after the previous had died in plane crash.
As for the Brewster, the Finnish fighter pilots nearly loved it after furious battles with Fokked D.21 -fighter during the Winter War.
With 44 Brewster Finns shot down 400-500 Soviet air planes, though lots of them were obsolute I-16 and I-153 fighters, but also many Russian Hurricanes, LaGGs, MiGs, IL-2s, Pe-2s, to name a few.
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