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Finnish Fighter Tactics, Heikki Nikunen The Winter War, Robert L. Shaw The Finnish Air Force, Heikki Nikunen Double Fighter Knight, Ilmari Juutilainen Aviation and Military History Links Finnish Fighter Aces, Updated 9 Jan 2005 Fighters to Finland Night fighter training in Germany 1944 The last Brewster, Risto Lindsted F19, Swedish volunteer unit in the Winter War Aviation and military history links Updated 6 Jan 2008 THE FINNISH FIGHTER TACTICS AND TRAINING BEFORE AND DURING THE WW II By Heikki Nikunen Lt Gen (ret) Heikki Nikunen is the former Commander of the Finnish Air Force. He has studied in the USAF Air University and is a member of the Finnish Society of Military Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of War Sciences. Tactics Development Flight Training System The Winter War The Temporary Peace The Continuation War Conclusions Sources The Winter War By Robert L. Shaw (An extract from the draft of an untitled book on the history of fighter technology and tactics. Ó Robert L. Shaw) Read the full Winter War article

The Finnish Air Force FAF, A HISTORICAL REVIEW By Lt Gen Heikki Nikunen The Finnish Air Force was founded on 6th March 1918. There was one exceptional feature in the founding of the FAF, that it was organized right from the start as an independent branch of the armed forces. This foresight created a good basis for its development and made it one of the oldest air forces in the world. Lt Nils Kindberg in the cockpit of the first Finnish Air Force aircraft - a Morane Thulin Parasol, at Umeå in Sweden in the morning of the 6th of March 1918. The aircraft was donated by the Swedish count Eric von Rosen and the date of the flight is still recongnised as the Finnish Air Force anniversary day. Read the whole story on the Finnish Air Force History page Back to top

Finnish Fighter Aces:
Richard Lorentz	G. E. Magnusson
Ilmari Juutilainen, 94 Hans Wind, 75 Eino Luukkanen, 56 Urho Lehtovaara, 44,5 Oiva Tuominen, 44 Olli Puhakka, 42 Olavi Puro, 36	Nils Katajainen, 35,5 Lauri Nissinen, 32,5 Kyösti Karhila, 32 Jorma Karhunen, 31 Jorma Sarvanto, 16 Veikko Karu, 10
In total 94 Finnish fighter pilots scored more than five victories during WWII.
Fighter Pilot 'Ace' List

Fighters to Finland:
Fokker D.XXIs to Finland Hurricanes to Finland Brewsters to Finland Caudron C.714s to Finland Messerschmitt Me-109s to Finland

Double Fighter Knight

The book Double Fighter Knight tells the story of Finnish Air Force's highest scoring ace, air master sergeant Ilmari Juutilainen (Fighter Pilot 'Ace' List) . "Illu" scored 94 victories flying the Brewster Buffaloes and Messerschmitt Bf 109s during WWII - Winter War and Continuation War as the Finns call it. Info about the Double Fighter Knight on the Bibliography page. (Distributors in USA: Motorbooks International, 729 Prospect Avenue, Osceola, WI 54020 and AV USK, 602 Front Street, Usk, WA. 99180, USA) See also Dan Ford's Double Fighter Knight page.

Lt Gen Heikki Nikunen has translated Ilmari Juutilainen's "Double Fighter Knight" book into English with RADM Paul T. Gillchrist (author of the "Feet Wet - reflections of a carrier pilot, featured on the Bibliography page 2). Back to top F19 Swedish volunteer unit in the Winter War See the full F19, Swedish volunteer unit  in Finland during the Winter War story Back to top

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