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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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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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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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