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Title: Books/websites on Finnish Air Force
Post by: Octavius on November 16, 2003, 09:44:30 PM

I'm in the process of researching possible topics for a paper in a WWII era history class.  I have chosen the Finnish involvement in World War II.  Specifically air combat from 1939-1940 involved in the Winter War.  (Brewsters, Hurricanes, LaGGs and MiGs.

My university has TONS of books/resources (largest library in the midwest I believe), however, I was unable to find any specific books on the Finnish air power and have turned to the visitors of this forum for some info.

Any particular scholarly books or website (footnotes, sources, etc) will speed up my research and be greatly appreciated.  

Just searching Google, I found these links:

http://www.mil.fi/tiedotus/talvisota_eng/

http://www.winterwar.com/

http://www.feldgrau.com/wwar.html

Thanks in advance!

Title: Some Finnish WW2 aviation links
Post by: TimRas on November 17, 2003, 12:24:20 AM

http://www.sci.fi/~ambush/faf/faf.html
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/history.htm
http://www.virtualpilots.fi/en/hist/
http://www.danford.net/buff.htm
http://www.ww2wings.com/wings/finland/finlandmain.shtml
http://www.wwii1939-1941.com/campaigns/finland-planes.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/2072/Finnaf.html
http://www.genealogia.fi/finnlinks/show.php?cid=15
http://www.jiop.fi/ksimuseo/planes.html

Title: Books/websites on Finnish Air Force
Post by: Grendel on November 17, 2003, 04:51:16 AM

http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/

Title: Re: Books/websites on Finnish Air Force
Post by: Grendel on November 17, 2003, 04:53:41 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Octavius

Specifically air combat from 1939-1940 involved in the Winter War.  (Brewsters, Hurricanes, LaGGs and MiGs.

Those planes did not fight in Winter War.

Brewsters were only arriving at the end of the conflict. Hurricanes arrived but became operational just two days before the end.

Soviets did not have LaGGs or MiGs yet.

Finnish primary planes were Fokker D.XXI, Gladiator and Blenheim.

Soviets primarily used I-15, I-16, SB-2 and DB-3.

Title: Books/websites on Finnish Air Force
Post by: Octavius on November 17, 2003, 11:50:31 AM

Thank you!



and Grendel, thanks for clarifying that :)