Posted on 09/01/2025 3:12:07 AM PDT by C19fan
Finland has belatedly admitted its air force flags probably should not have a huge swastika in the middle.
The Nordic country is set to remove the symbol from the standard because its presence has created 'awkward situations with foreign visitors'.
The nation adopted the insignia as the emblem of its airborne military when it was founded in 1918.
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BOTH PLANES?
So sad.
Send the flags to Ukraine and they’ll be posted all over the country.
It was chosen BEFORE Hitler turned it into the symbol for his Nazis.
NMSU was still using the swastika name and symbol for their student yearbook when I attended back in the mid 70's. They finally abandoned it in 1983.
Let’s not forget that finland was an Axis power in WW2. They sided with the Nazis.
Mind, their enemy was the much worse USSR, but still. History counts.
When I was in my early teens, my family visited a relative who lived in Syracuse, NY. As part of that visit, I observed a 3 or 4 story building that had a decorative cornice, perhaps of concrete, which featured a large and very prominent swastika.
I wonder if it’s still there?
In the late eighties I made a port call in Cochin India before it was renamed Kochi. I’d never heard of them before but there was a large colony of diaspora Jews living there since the 12th Century. Most of them have since resettled to Israel but some of their synagogues remain. I visited one and was amazed to see the wrought iron basement windows, each of which had a swastika in the center of it.
Let’s not forget that finland was an Axis power in WW2. They sided with the Nazis.
In fact, Hitler met with Finnish Marshall Mannerheim, during the war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oET1WaG5sFk
In New Mexico you’ll find more than a few older buildings from the 1920s with swastika decorations.
I think they fly Brewster Buffalos. OK, they may have upgraded since then lol. But they flew them in World War II. They did real good with them. It gets unfairly criticized when people compare that 1937 aircraft with 1941-1942 aircraft. I like the P 39, and it didn’t fit with our 1942 and later needs, but it excelled fighting the Russians where the air combat took place at lower altitudes as a general rule.
Finish Air Force has a very proud history in fact They kicked the s*** out of the Russians when they invaded during the Winter War and the Continuation War
Finnish US Brewster (F2A1) BW-364 is credited with 42 1/2 kills by all the different pilots who flew it.
This quote from Wiki: After evaluation of claims against Soviet actual losses, aircraft No. BW-364 was credited with 42½ kills in total by all pilots operating it, possibly making it the highest-scoring fighter airframe in the history of air warfare.
Another source credits BW-393 with 41 kills. If anybody is good at counting, this site has a list:
http://www.warbirdforum.com/scores.htm
Always like that the main pilot that flew this aircraft... His kill markings were beer bottle labels
The Brewster Aeronautical Company was the ONLY US aircraft company to go out of business during WWII. Problems with crooked management, union strikes and sabotage, and an outdated design led the Navy to take it over in 1944 when it became the Naval Air Modification Unit.
Until those damn Nazis ruined it for everyone.
Germans!!!
British army too
Mind, their enemy was the much worse USSR, but still. History counts.
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The USSR invaded Finland unprovoked. Finland was not an Axis power. As far as siding with the Nazis, what was the old saying? The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
The Buffalo was “a sweet ship and could turn inside a phone booth” according to Pappy Boyington. He said they ruined it when they loaded it up with armor and heavy radios and weighed it down.
It was also the first Navy monoplane carrier fighter.
It was one of those planes that was just a little early.
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