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Fighter ace Mauno Fräntilä was creating the Glory of the war pilots

Mauno Fräntilä, 85 years, has been in 40 air battles and combat 380 sorties.

During the war years he flew in the legendary Fighter Squadron 24. After the war Fräntilä was instructing the new generations in Kauhava to the skills of aerial combat until 1956. He managed to try also the Fouga and considered it to be easy to fly


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New historical article: Fighter ace Mauno Fräntilä, one of the first
« Reply #1 on: April 06, 2002, 06:05:32 PM »
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