Cobras, Mustangs, Thunderbolts, Eastern vs Western front, Franek vs ...

[Juha]

Come on Franek, no need to make self-clear points.

And Finnish pilots were well aware of the purpose of air combat and I'm sure so were Soviets. In fact FAF's high command thought in 1943 that Finnish pilots were too aware of that and tried desperately to restrict the hunt for kills over areas where there was powerful Soviet AA. High command thought that it was not worth to risk scare planes and pilots to powerful AA for a few kills and that it was better to spare them to next real need. But it was very difficult to convince pilots on that. In the end it was ordered that no kills made over those AA areas would be accepted and pilots flying over those areas without permission would be punished.

Juha