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10-12-2009, 04:12 PM
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Interview with Finnish Top Ace Ilmari Juutilainen 94 victories
Came across this while reading about the winter war, thought it was quite interesting
 http://www.sci.fi/~fta/finace01.htm Edit: It's 3 pages, in case someone didn't notice the link to the following page. Last edited by the_somme; 10-12-2009 at 07:17 PM. 
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10-12-2009, 04:39 PM
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an excellent read, thoroughly enjoyed it
 to think his 94 victories could be infact many more, but he gave his shared kills up to the younger pilots!! Seems like a fairly calm individual, the kind of guy you would like to fly with.
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10-12-2009, 04:44 PM
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It was so much better than the Fokker that it was in another category. If we had had Brewsters during the Winter War, the Russians would have been unable to fly over Finland. It was also a "gentleman's traveling plane", for it had a roomy cockpit and room in the fuselage, as we used to say, for a poker gang. We unofficially transported mechanics, spare parts, oil canisters etc. in our Brewsters. Once, though two pilots went a little too far - a flight sergeant was flying, and in the fuselage was a second lieutenant, his friend, his dog and a lot of baggage. Upon landing the plane went off the runway and the suitcase came out. Both pilots were punished. Humorously, the lieutenant's sentence started with:"As the commander of the crew of a single-seat fighter.."
absolutely brilliant!!! hahaha, that made me chuckle.
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10-12-2009, 04:53 PM
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Yes that is a very good read! I havent finished yet though.
Question: Is that Brewster the same one that was called the "Buffalo" in the states? I cant believe you could actually get kills with that thing.
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#6
10-12-2009, 05:04 PM
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