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Victory scores of the Finnish Brewsters



 
 
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Old July 26th 03, 05:01 PM
Jukka O. Kauppinen
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Default Victory scores of the Finnish Brewsters

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

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Old July 26th 03, 08:21 PM
Jukka O. Kauppinen
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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

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Old July 26th 03, 10:49 PM
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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'
 




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