A tidbit from a finnish ww2 Air Force veteran pilot, Kauko Aho, who flew Blenheim bombers during 1944. This full interview and other interesting materials will be coming up in the VLeLv Icebreakers & Virtuaalilentäjät r.y./Virtual Pilots Finland (registered society) historical website.
Aho's squadron was flying their Blenheims in the thick battles of summer 1944. Once again they were heading to the hot battlezone, with their outmoded, old and slow bombers, when…
"I then saw two round nosed fighters approaching from behind. They came terribly fast nearer us. They pulled next to our planes and then I saw the black crosses in the fuselage and swastika in stabilizer. And then I saw more of them. More of them, all around, flying with us. And I felt this warm feeling in my heart, now we aren't alone in this battle anymore. At that moment I became friend of the germans."
The german Gefechtverband Kuhlmey, combined from II./JG54 "Grünhertz", I./SG 3 and and Ju-87's of I./SG 5, has just arrived to Finland. Armed with Focke-Wulf 190 jabos and Ju-87 dive bombers they begin assisting finnish army against the massed offensive of the Red Army. Their first mission in Finland was against same target that mr. Aho's Blenheims of Bomber Squadron 42 were striking. Kuhlmey's unti was one of the decisive assets that helped stopping the soviet juggernaut, and causing the only defeat of Red Army's offensives during the later half of the war.
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