The biggest xxx in the world, true WW2 story
Translation from original Finnish language story, published in Pirkanmaa area's "Christmas of the war veterans"
magazine that was sold for veteran support purposes december 2001.
Original article written by Seppo Satamo, typed by Jari "Elk" Halivuori and translated by Teme.
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Leutenants Hakulinen and Remes, belonging to a Curtiss hawk squadron operation from Nurmoila airfiels, were ordered to reconnoiter enemy airbase south of river Syväri. They flew high enough to leave condensation trails, so when they arrived over the enemy field they got an idea. Leutenants decided to divide to each side of the field and then return straight over it.
The enemy air defences opened fire at them and most coveniently decorated the trails with "cotton balls". Hakulinen smiled contentedly: "The result was perfect". The female members communication corps wonderer the laughter leutenants caused while telling their story in canteen. The picture was not forgot in the sky of Syväri, but the story travelled to Germany, spread among the Allied and found it"s way even into Japan.
After the was Hakulinen was empoyed as engineer for Enzo Gutzeit. A trade mission from Japan arrived to purchase a papermill from the company. Two members of the mission were former aces, and obviously they knew the story of Hakulinen and two-mile-ellipse.
In the course of the evening, while enjoing sauna and refreshments, the japanese started to tell war memories. Hakulinen mentioned that he too had been a fighter pilot in the war. The japanese bursted into laughter, and when Hakulinen wondered why, the answer was: "The biggest in the world!".
