Victory scores of the Finnish Brewsters

[Jukka O. Kauppinen]

Was travelling in train and reading the Finnish book about Brewsters.
Thought to make a short list of the most successful Brewsters in Finnish
service - might give some good food for though:

Brewster (Finnish serial) - number of aerial victories - total hours
flown - pilots and their personal score with the airframe

BW-352 - 18 kills
BW-353 - 20 - 562h 45 min
BW-357 - 16 - 802h
BW-364 - 36 - Ilmari Juutilainen 28
BW-366 - 23 - Jorma Karhunen 14
BW-384 - 18 - 729h 05 min
BW-393 - 41 - Eino Luukkanen 7, Hans Wind 26

The Brewster in Finnish service was the Brewster B-239 model.

jok

[Jukka O. Kauppinen]

> I have wondered if anyone outside of Finnish forces ever achieved ace status
> in the Brewster. Did your book happen to say?

No, it was just about the Finnish use. The Dutch pilots were pretty
successful with it and in the end achieved a 1:1 ratio against the
Japasene. More about in at Dan Ford's site: http://www.danford.net/dutch.htm

jok

[JDupre5762]

>I have wondered if anyone outside of Finnish forces ever achieved ace status
>in the Brewster. Did your book happen to say?

There were several RAF pilots who achieved ace status with the Model 339 or 439
Brewster Buffalo. Most notable a New Zealander named Geoffrey Fisken who
scored 5 or 6 and later went on to score either 5 or 6 on the P-40. In any
event his total is 11 making him the highest scoring pilot from the
Commonwealth versus the Japanese.

John Dupre'