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08-12-2007, 07:01 AM
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You're Top Poster: #62   | Ilmari Juutilainen - Finland's Ace of Aces
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08-12-2007, 07:35 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2  | Great post Higge and welcome to the forum. Some very cool pics on that site, particularly of the Brewsters (Kyt'll love 'em!) which I haven't seen before. A good read as well of a side of the war that we don't hear enough of.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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08-12-2007, 08:46 AM
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You're Top Poster: #62 | Thanks Andy, mr. Juutilainen was a true hero as well as many others and there is lots of books about that topic also, unfortunately in Finnish only as far as I know...
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08-12-2007, 09:30 AM
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You're Top Poster: #5  | Its time that Finnish heros were given the publicity that they so richly deserve.
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08-12-2007, 10:03 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1  | Thank you higgie. As Andy has mentioned I love the Buffalo. And the Finns really showed what it could do in the right hands. My favourite (and the best) site on the Buff: Annals of the Brewster Buffalo It has some excellent information on the Finnish use. However, as you say, most information is in Finnish. I look forward to your future contributions as it will be great to have a "native" who knows more about it  So keep those posts coming.
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08-12-2007, 11:53 AM
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You're Top Poster: #62 | I have story I heard from my friend's dad who was a pilot in ww2. He was flying in Lappland during time when we were forced to fight against german, we call it "Lappland War", after peace with Soviets. Anyway, he was doing some patrolling and they had some contact with germans what led to dogfight. He was hit very bad and he was forced to jump, he fell in unknown territory with no map. He broke his leg and was hiding five days in rocks somewhere. After gaining some "power" he decided to go ahead to west, not knowing if there's Finns or Germans. He was luckily to get to Finns and survived but after that they went to find a plane, it found far in Soviet territory, and where he was hiding was 30 kilometers in Soviet land. He had walked 55 kilometers with broken leg!!! R.I.P Seppo Sartjärvi
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08-12-2007, 11:54 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | You Finns are tough!
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08-12-2007, 12:02 PM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Quote:
 Russians - Russians again - and then the Germans!!
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23-12-2007, 05:46 AM
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You're Top Poster: #62 | Hey! Whats worth fighting with tiny countries
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23-12-2007, 11:38 AM
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You're Top Poster: #1 | Very true. Finland reminds me of a small terrier facoig upto a great dane - the great dane always runs away, the terrier will still chase after it 
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