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Re: Finnish-marked British planes?
Hello!
Both UK and France were preparing to send largish military forces to Finland -infantry and associated things plus also airforce units. For that they would have needed (politically) Finland to ask for such aid. Finnish governement reasoned that the Allied help would arrive too late - by mid-March the Front was on the brink of total collapse - and eventually it was decided to sue for peace instead of asking Allied help.
BTW Asking and accepting the Allied help would have moved Soviet Union to the German side against the Allied. One of the great "What-if"s of WW2 if you ask from me.
When reading about British and French aid for Norwegians for their battle against German invasion Spring 1940 one cannot help thinking that the Allied forces perhaps were the very same which were intended to be sent to Finland (and Northern Sweden & Norway). I suppose the expeditionary forces would have fought under their own (British and French) markings even if sent to Finland instead of Norway.
My two cents,
Kari
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