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Mensaje: <blockquote data-quote="emilioteles" data-source="post: 1784184" data-attributes="member: 3144"><img src="https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/21117_692951434167985_1043768416584015252_n.jpg?oh=6428931f3dda57ad1ce98cf86c237661&oe=55A5BCAF&__gda__=1440301250_003eef1b2863ad5e63d34dfb3baf84e9" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> A Finnish Brewster Buffalo 239 fighter (BW-352) of (Squadron) Lentolaivue/24 at Selänpää airfield. 24th June 1941.The account of Corporal Heimo Lampi, 2/LeLv 24, after his first air victories at Selänpää 25.6.1941;"We didn't know that the war was about to begin on the morning of the 25th of June 1941. I hadn't even completed my shooting training with the Brewster, but on that morning we had to begin shooting at the edge of field constructed ground targets. Just before the clock was about to strike seven the phone rang, and we we're told, that the soviets had begun their assault on Inkeroisten kauppalaa.We scrambled our Brewsters into the air, the first men of our squadron spotted the enemy, 18 Tupolev SB-2 bombers flying in formation. They didn't have any fighters covering them. After some slight confusion at the beginning a battle started. I shot the first bomber which was at the very end of the right in their formation, It crashed with it's full bomb-load right straight to an cliff and exploded to pieces. Then I managed to shoot my second victims engine. The bomber broke from the formation and flew low with the remaining power of it's one last engine. I attacked again, but I was flying at such high airspeed that I flew right next to it and the SB gunner managed to get a few hits on me, when I was about 10 metres from it. I did a turn and managed to shoot it's remaining working engine until it was set on fire. I saw how the SB crashed straight into a shallow lake near Selänpää airfield.I also had got a few hits on my machine. My fuel tank ruptured, the gas was leaking inside the cockpit, the machine gun belt breached and the brake line cut off. When I was landing on the Selänpää airfield, I was about to crash, I didn't know the brakes we're inoperative. The brakes on one side worked, but weren't working on the other. I managed to land without crashing with the use of my engine to keep the plane balanced. I was afraid that the plane was about to set on fire, but however that didn't happen. My knees we're totally wet with the fuel."During the Continuation War of 1941–1944, the B-239s (a de-navalised F2A-1) operated by the Finnish Air Force proved capable of engaging and destroying most types of Soviet fighter aircraft operating against Finland at that time and achieving in the first phase of that conflict 32 Soviet aircraft shot down for every B-239 lost, and producing 36 Buffalo "aces".</blockquote>

Verificación: Guerra desarrollada entre Argentina y el Reino Unido en 1982