http://www.virtualpilots.fi/hist/
"It all started in 24 Fighter Squadron during '42 or '43 if I
remember correctly. Someone suggested that one of the squadron
pilots go to Kauhava (Air Force Academy) to lecture on tactics,
'how to wage war with Brewsters'. That was because the Americans
also started waging war and they had no clue how to go about it.
There in the Pacific when they started fighting it was completely
pitiful. They had three engagements where Brewsters were used. And
in the last one they had 17 Brewsters in one aerial engagement, and
if I remember correctly, 13 were shot down. After that all the
Brewsters were sent to Florida for their Air Force cadets.
And all of this was the result of them attacking Zeros. They didn't
consider at all that the Zero had no armour, was made of wood and
was much lighter. But it had an engine of the same size. And they
(Americans) started turn-fighting them (Zeros). So, the Brewsters
were shot down. They just should have used rocking-chair (vertical)
tactics, attack and pull out.
The Finnish pilot Captain Hans Henrik "Hasse" Wind
30.7.1919-24.7.1995 had 75 aerial victories, double recipient of
the Mannerheim Cross (the highest military award in Finland) (39
kills in the Brewster)
http://www.saunalahti.fi/fta/finace02.htm
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