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Re: French H-75A-4 aircraft
Hello Alex
CU-568 was SOC 16.8.42 according to Keskinen, Stenman, Niska: Curtiss Hawk 75A P-40M (1975). I don't believe that Finns would have sold off the wreck to the French for spare parts. Finns have they own Hawk 75As to look after, after all it was one of their main first-line fighter types at that time even if LLv. 32, the user of Hawk 75As, was down to 12 CUs on June 1st 1942. In 1943 Finns bought 15 more Hawk 75As (ex-French) from Germans.
Juha
LATER ADDITION: CU-568 stalled in inverted position,went to a flat spin, hit the ground appr. 30 deg angle, was smashed and buried itself up to back bulkhead of cockpit into the ground. Pilot KIFA. This from Hyvönen's Kohtalokkaat lennot 1939 - 1944 (2001). So there were probably not very much useful left in the wreck.
Last edited by Juha; 19th October 2006 at 23:57.
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