Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => Aircraft and Vehicles => Topic started by: Grendel on April 06, 2002, 04:18:00 PM
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http://www.compart.fi/icebreakers/WW2History.html
Fighter ace Mauno Fräntilä was creating the Glory of the war pilots
Mauno Fräntilä, 85 years, has been in 40 air battles and 380 combat 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
(http://www.compart.fi/icebreakers/kuvat/ww2history-frantila2.jpg)