[Juha]

Hello Mike

BW-372 is now in Pensacola and IIRC it will be shown there in some time future and will be restored only to the condition it was when recovered from the lake. Tronti indeed agreed to spy for Soviets but when he was sent back to Finland he told this to Finnish officials and was posted away from frontline duties. That was not the first time when Axis soldiers used this trick to get back to their own forces. I have no knowledge on the possible betrayal of Pekuri by him.

On Pekuri's ordeals IIRC he wrote on them after the war but I recall only that he lost much weight during his time as PoW and spent much time in interrogation centre.
IIRC Tronti was ex-Fiat G.50 ace (7 kills) and was on his first Bf 109 sortie when he possible collied with Soviet ace Serov(28 kills) during an air combat. The Soviet ace was killed in the crash and Tronti wasn't the most popular with his captors, I quess. So his position wasn't very enviable.
He died in 1966.


Not much I admit

Juha