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To: sergeantdave
The Finnish Air Force kicked Soviet and Nazi tail. Using primarily surplus or captured fighters, they put quite a hurting on all who opposed them.

During the Winter War, they had a kill ratio of 218-47 (plus 30 captured after being forced to land). During the Continuation War (1941-44) they had a ratio of 1,621-210. Then, following the end of hostilities with the Soviet Union, the Finns fought the Nazis in the Lapland War, where they scored the only 3 aerial victories of this conflict.

Flying the obsolete US F2 Brewster B239 "Buffalo", the Finns had a 459-15 kill ratio!

16 posted on 08/19/2012 2:51:40 PM PDT by Stonewall Jackson ("I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.")
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Finns were allied with Nazis. Also when they attacked USSR in 1941 they were stopped by Soviets just like they stopped Soviets a year before that.
Soviets withstood joint Finn-Nazi offensive and won the war...


18 posted on 08/19/2012 3:27:11 PM PDT by kronos77 (Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem. No Serbia without Kosovo.)
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To: Stonewall Jackson

Thanks for the air combat accounting, Stonewall. That’s a part of the Finn combat that I wasn’t aware of.


33 posted on 08/22/2012 4:41:58 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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