509 Brewster F2A fighters and its export versions were produced. It was used by the allied air forces in the CBI/PTO during the most desperate times when there wasn't much else throw at the advancing japanese. It can be argued if it had much effect to the course of the war at the time but it was there while not much else was.
In the eastern front a single squadron (LeLv24) of Brewster Model 239s achieved 459 victories between 25.6.1941-21.5.1944. It is claimed that LeLv24 scored more kills (759 total) than any other fighter squadron during WWII.
When looking at the major USAAF/NAVY (day) fighter types only thing missing is the P-39. Well, on the other hand all we finns want is a single fighter that was used almost exclusively (when looking at the time frame/sorties) by the finns. Americans, please consider a situation where either P-47 or P-38 would be missing from the planeset and you hopefully realize where I'm coming from.
And all we finns have done is rooted for the Brewster in a fairly positive manner without slamming the competing choises too much.
This campaining which has been going on for about a week in these boards has been fun and fairly positive.
Bodhi, was it really *that* hard to just root for your personal favourite and not start slamming the other choises?
On the other hand, considering the history of this board, if I would have known that someone is going to do this kind of a post and I would have had to guess the author I would have named about ten guys and you would have been one of them.
There's thousands of voters and my far most of them are americans who don't even read this board normally. It really isn't rocket science to figure out what are Brewster's realistic changes to get picked even without slamming posts like these...and you had to do it anyway.
Like I said, not really rocket science.
