Airacobras in Tunisia

[Christer Bergström]

I agree. However, the poor Buffalo pilots still were lucky that the fighter they most commonly were up against was the rotten old Nakajima Ki-27 Nate. And that also was in late 1941 and early 1942. When the far more modern Hayabusa later appeared, almost all Buffalo fighters had been shot out of the sky.

I have always had the impression that the Finnish fighter pilots were some of the best fighter pilots in the whole war. What they managed to achieve with their outmoded equipment is highly impressive.