The Archive · 1939

Finns Active in Air

Finnish aircraft also effected reconnaissance flights behind the Soviet lines and bombed military objectives, Anti-aircraft batteries in Finland played their part as well, bringing down six Soviet machines.

As for today's operations in the air, no less than 20 Soviet planes were destroyed. This number: does no include several machines which are known to have fallen behind the Russian lines, One Soviet bomber, brought down several days ago, was discovered only yesterday, while it s reported that another Soviet machine wss put out of action two days ago and fell into the sea near the Karo: iaa Tstnmus.~

Havas.

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