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Radoye

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Re: German to Finnish arms/weapons
« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2011, 06:54:06 PM »

There is no WW2 airforce with such enormous variety of equipment: german, italian, french, british, american, german and... russian.
Maybe only Yugoslavs - using domestic, Czech, Polish, French, British, German, Italian and American planes (that's only pre-war) and then British, Russian, German, American, Italian, Bulgarian and again domestic designs post-war...
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Re: German to Finnish arms/weapons
« Reply #13 on: June 07, 2011, 08:04:41 AM »

Finns actually had three separate wars between 1939-1945.

Winter War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_war

Continuation War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuation_war

Lapland War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War

There is very good movie about Winter War -> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098437/
Worth watching, if you can find it somewhere. English subtitles are rather bad but still informative.
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Re: German to Finnish arms/weapons
« Reply #14 on: June 07, 2011, 09:11:12 AM »

Interesting those P-40's. Maybe Soviet captured equipment?
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Re: German to Finnish arms/weapons
« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2011, 11:32:51 AM »

Interesting those P-40's. Maybe Soviet captured equipment?

Yeah, it was captured from Soviets.
CanĀ“t remember what year, but if I remember correctly, they tested it and then used it for spares or something like that..
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Re: German to Finnish arms/weapons
« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2011, 01:01:10 PM »

I found the pictures of the p-40's bearing Finnish paint, but cant tell which production model they are - IE if they are lend lease export versions etc
One could assume if there were bullet holes that had been patched with tooth paste then they would have been in Soviet possession
at some point.  8)

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Re: German to Finnish arms/weapons
« Reply #17 on: June 07, 2011, 02:27:00 PM »

They only employed one P-40, a P-40M, and it was never really used operationally.
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Re: German to Finnish arms/weapons
« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2011, 02:53:42 AM »

Except Japanese A/C   ::)
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