Päivitykset / Updates
28.1.2023 I added some new information to my review on khazanov-dmitriy-medved-aleksander-pe-2-guards-units-of-world-war-2-osprey-combat-aircraft-o-96.html on the attack on Shatalowka-East airfield on 14 September 1943. It is about half-way down in the post. It is written in bold.
28.1.2023 I added to my blog my review on Zaloga’s Panzer 38(t) vs BT-7, Barbarossa 1941 Osprey Duel 78 (2017)
31.12.2020 I added to my blog my review on Ian White Vickers Wellesley Warpaint series No.86.
12.12.2020 I added to my blog my review on Khazanov, Dmitriy & Medved, Aleksandert, Pe-2 Guards Units of World War 2 Osprey Combat Aircraft • 96
4.9.2020 I added to my blog my review on Peter de Jong's Dornier Do 24 Units Osprey Combat Aircraft 110.
2.9.2020 I added to my blog my review on Michael John Claringbould's P-39/P-400 Airacobra vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen New Guinea 1942 Osprey Duel 87.
21.5.2020 Lisäsin blogiini lyhyen kirja-arvostelun Ilmasodan Veteraanit Kertovat -kirjasta.
20.5.2020 Lisäsin blogiini kirja-arvostelun Bair Irincheevin Talvisota Venäläisten Silmin -kirjasta.
15.1.2020 I added to my blog my review on Marco Mattioli’s SAVOIA-MARCHETTI S.79 SPARVIERO BOMBER UNITS. (Combat Aircraft Book 122).
17.11.2019 a major update to my article Cromwell vs Jagdpanzer IV Normandy 1944 by David R. Higgins. Osprey Duel 86 from the chapter Break-out from Normandy and Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil onwards.
2.1.2019 I added to my blog my review on Cromwell vs Jagdpanzer IV Normandy 1944 by David R. Higgins. Osprey Duel 86.
2.3.2018 I added a forgotten source, www.211squadron.org/glossary.html#Tours , to The Lenghts of the RAF Operational Tours page and checked its source links, seems that we have lost three of them.
23.1.2018 I added to Articles Buchanan and Neuhoff by Patrick G. Eriksson and Rob Buchanan with Juha Vaittinen
20.3.2017 I added to my blog my review on Khazanov, Dmitriy & Medved, Aleksander, Bf 109E/F vs Yak-1/7 Eastern Front 1941 – 42 Osprey Duel 65.
26.9.2016 I added to my blog my review on Images of War: Fighters under Construction in World War Two by Graham M. Simons.
27.7.2016 I added to my blog my review on Focke-Wulf Fw 190 “Long Nose” An Illustrated History of the Fw 190D Series by Dietmar Hermann (Schiffer Military History 2003).
25.7.2016 I added to my blog my review on Bruce Oliver Newsome's Valentine Infantry Tank 1938 – 45.
11.3.2016 I added to my blog my review on FlyPast Special BEAUFIGHTER.
14.1.2016 I added to my blog my review on Marco Mattioli’s SAVOIA-MARCHETTI S.79 SPARVIERO TORPEDO-BOMBER UNITS. And updated the London Gazette link in the Deadly Avro Anson page.
2.1.2016 lisäsin Steven J. Zaloga Panzer IV vs Sherman France 1944 arvostelun blogiini.
31.12.2015 I slightly updated my review on Ian Daglish's Over the Battlefield - Operation Goodwood, adding some information on the Cagny 88s I have come across (Appendix IX in the book).
30.12.2015 I added to my blog my review on Dunkirk to the Rhineland. Diaries and sketches of Sergeant C S Murrell, Welsh Guards Edited by Nick Murrell.
12.10.2015 I added to my blog my review on Dan Sharp’s Spitfires Over Berlin: The Air War in Europe 1945.
21.9.2015 I updated the data of the Soviet aces on the The lengths of the RAF operational tours page according to the information given in Mikhail Bykov’s "Soviet aces 1941 - 1945" and "All Stalin's aces 1936 - 1953" books.
8.7.2015 I added to the Air gunners article the 2 March 1940 case and made some smaller additions on the page.
13.4.2015 I added to my blog my review on Ian Daglish's Over the Battlefield - Operation Goodwood.
2.1.2015 I added to my blog my review on Gianni Cattaneo’s Aer. Macchi C.200.
25.12.2014 I added to my blog my review on Yefim Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2.
4.9.2014 Some additions to the Soviet turn time tests results page. I converted the metric horsepower (PS, лс) figures in the article into the imperial horsepower, added different Polikarpov I-153 versions, Messerschmitt Bf 110C-4 and some missing specs.
16.6.2014 lisäsin blogiini 2 uutta linkkiä Suomen Ilmailumuseossa Vantaalla 2005 pidetyn Suomen Ilmasota -seminaarin esitelmien YouTube videoihin, mukaan laitoin myös Windin suoritusilmoituksen hänen 27.5.1944 lentämästä näkötiedustelulennosta sekä Puron vastaavan tämän 22.5.1944 näkötiedustelulennosta. I also added a new Dornier Do 17Z photo to the Air gunners page.
13.5.2014 I added a new page, The lengths of the RAF operational tours.
26.4.2014 lisäsin blogiini 3 linkkiä Suomen Ilmailumuseossa Vantaalla 2005 pidetyn Suomen Ilmasota -seminaarin esitelmiin YouTubessa.
15.4.2014 I added to my blog my review on Richard J. Smith's and Eddie J. Creek's Me 262 Volume One.
17.3.2014 lisäsin blogiini Olavi Puron Mersu-ässä kirjan arvostelun.
13.2.2014 Joitakin lisäyksiä Suomalaiset syöksypommittajat talvisodassa artikkeliin / Some additions to the
Suomalaiset syöksypommittajat talvisodassa article.
26.12.2013 I corrected the broken photo link on the Disaster at High Seas page.
11.12.2013 I added my review on the FlyPast Special WELLINGTON onto my blog.
29.11.2013 I added to the Soviet turn time tests page two new sources which I used together with the relevant Gordon's books and some copies from a Russian book while thinking over the question was the Tomahawk tested at the NII VVS IIA or IIB, in other words comparable to the P-40B or to the P-40C. In the end I decised to keep it as a P-40C because while the serial given on Gordon's book is that of a Tomahawk IIA the armament given is that of the P-40C and the weight given is clearly nearer to that of the P-40C.
27.10.2013 I added my review on Steven J. Zaloga’s Panzer IV vs Char B1 bis Osprey Duel 33 (2011) onto my blog.
14.10.2013 Lauri Pekuri: Hävittäjälentäjä -kirjan arvostelu
6.10.2013 Avasin blogini. artikkelilla Hyvää ilmailukirjallisuutta - osa 1.
5.10.2013 I added my review on Robert Forczyk’s Fw 200 Condor vs Atlantic Convoy 1941 - 43 onto my blog.
5.9.2013 I added Tony Jonsson's date of death into my first blog.
2.9.2013 I added Tony Jonsson's service history into my first blog.
1.9.2013 I opened my blog with an article on some of my favorite memoirs of WWII pilots.
26.8.2013 I added a photo of Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 onto the Soviet turn time tests page.
23.8.2013 I added the entry of Yak-9U onto the Soviet turn time tests page.
22.8.2013 I continued the additions onto the Soviet turn time tests page based on my notes from Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2 which made possible to add the entry of P-40M-5-CU.
15.8.2013 I continued the additions onto the Soviet turn time tests page based on my notes from Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2 which made possible to add entries of 3 more versions of Yak-1from years 1941 and 1942. I also added a photo of a P-47D onto the page.
14.8.2013 made a couple adjustments to Bf 109F entries after rereading some of my materials and continued the additions based on my notes from Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2 which made possible to add entries of Hurricane IIC and IID, P-400/Airacobra Mk. Is, P-39L-1-BE and P-39Q-25-BE and to add weight info into P-63A entry.
13.8.2013 made some additions and stylistic corrections onto the Soviet turn time tests page. I visited my brother today and he showed to me his copy of Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2 and allowed me to take some notes from it, so in addition the few additions I had planned to do I was able to add entries of Yak-7A, -9T and -9DD and also that of Spitfire HF. IX. I was also able to add the weight and armament info to Yak-9D and -9M entries. And I was able to change the power rating of Merlin 46 by adding 15hp in the Spitfire Mk VB entry and add the weight, for Spitfire LF. IX I was able to add the weight and the armament info because the book confirmed that the tested plane had the E-wing. I will make some more additions later.
12.8.2013 adding a new page, Disaster at High Seas.
11.8.2013 adding a photo of the LG-3 of the FiAF onto the Soviet turn time tests page. LG-3 was a war-booty LaGG-3 serie 35 serving at the LeLv 32 of the FiAF.
15.7.2013 adding the page Results of the Soviet turn time tests.
16.4.2013 small additions to July 7 1943 story on the Air gunners page
11.4.2013 adding July 7 1943 455 Squadron Hampden against 1./JG 5 Bf 109Gs story on the Air gunners page.
13.2.2013 adding the Air gunners page.
6.2.2013 Adding the Link page and my e-mail address onto Kuka olen / Who I am -page
31.1.2013 Adding a photo of Bf 109E onto pages Deadly Avro Anson and The first aerial victory of a British pilot/gunner during the WW II.
28.1.2023 I added to my blog my review on Zaloga’s Panzer 38(t) vs BT-7, Barbarossa 1941 Osprey Duel 78 (2017)
31.12.2020 I added to my blog my review on Ian White Vickers Wellesley Warpaint series No.86.
12.12.2020 I added to my blog my review on Khazanov, Dmitriy & Medved, Aleksandert, Pe-2 Guards Units of World War 2 Osprey Combat Aircraft • 96
4.9.2020 I added to my blog my review on Peter de Jong's Dornier Do 24 Units Osprey Combat Aircraft 110.
2.9.2020 I added to my blog my review on Michael John Claringbould's P-39/P-400 Airacobra vs A6M2/3 Zero-sen New Guinea 1942 Osprey Duel 87.
21.5.2020 Lisäsin blogiini lyhyen kirja-arvostelun Ilmasodan Veteraanit Kertovat -kirjasta.
20.5.2020 Lisäsin blogiini kirja-arvostelun Bair Irincheevin Talvisota Venäläisten Silmin -kirjasta.
15.1.2020 I added to my blog my review on Marco Mattioli’s SAVOIA-MARCHETTI S.79 SPARVIERO BOMBER UNITS. (Combat Aircraft Book 122).
17.11.2019 a major update to my article Cromwell vs Jagdpanzer IV Normandy 1944 by David R. Higgins. Osprey Duel 86 from the chapter Break-out from Normandy and Saint-Aignan-de-Cramesnil onwards.
2.1.2019 I added to my blog my review on Cromwell vs Jagdpanzer IV Normandy 1944 by David R. Higgins. Osprey Duel 86.
2.3.2018 I added a forgotten source, www.211squadron.org/glossary.html#Tours , to The Lenghts of the RAF Operational Tours page and checked its source links, seems that we have lost three of them.
23.1.2018 I added to Articles Buchanan and Neuhoff by Patrick G. Eriksson and Rob Buchanan with Juha Vaittinen
20.3.2017 I added to my blog my review on Khazanov, Dmitriy & Medved, Aleksander, Bf 109E/F vs Yak-1/7 Eastern Front 1941 – 42 Osprey Duel 65.
26.9.2016 I added to my blog my review on Images of War: Fighters under Construction in World War Two by Graham M. Simons.
27.7.2016 I added to my blog my review on Focke-Wulf Fw 190 “Long Nose” An Illustrated History of the Fw 190D Series by Dietmar Hermann (Schiffer Military History 2003).
25.7.2016 I added to my blog my review on Bruce Oliver Newsome's Valentine Infantry Tank 1938 – 45.
11.3.2016 I added to my blog my review on FlyPast Special BEAUFIGHTER.
14.1.2016 I added to my blog my review on Marco Mattioli’s SAVOIA-MARCHETTI S.79 SPARVIERO TORPEDO-BOMBER UNITS. And updated the London Gazette link in the Deadly Avro Anson page.
2.1.2016 lisäsin Steven J. Zaloga Panzer IV vs Sherman France 1944 arvostelun blogiini.
31.12.2015 I slightly updated my review on Ian Daglish's Over the Battlefield - Operation Goodwood, adding some information on the Cagny 88s I have come across (Appendix IX in the book).
30.12.2015 I added to my blog my review on Dunkirk to the Rhineland. Diaries and sketches of Sergeant C S Murrell, Welsh Guards Edited by Nick Murrell.
12.10.2015 I added to my blog my review on Dan Sharp’s Spitfires Over Berlin: The Air War in Europe 1945.
21.9.2015 I updated the data of the Soviet aces on the The lengths of the RAF operational tours page according to the information given in Mikhail Bykov’s "Soviet aces 1941 - 1945" and "All Stalin's aces 1936 - 1953" books.
8.7.2015 I added to the Air gunners article the 2 March 1940 case and made some smaller additions on the page.
13.4.2015 I added to my blog my review on Ian Daglish's Over the Battlefield - Operation Goodwood.
2.1.2015 I added to my blog my review on Gianni Cattaneo’s Aer. Macchi C.200.
25.12.2014 I added to my blog my review on Yefim Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2.
4.9.2014 Some additions to the Soviet turn time tests results page. I converted the metric horsepower (PS, лс) figures in the article into the imperial horsepower, added different Polikarpov I-153 versions, Messerschmitt Bf 110C-4 and some missing specs.
16.6.2014 lisäsin blogiini 2 uutta linkkiä Suomen Ilmailumuseossa Vantaalla 2005 pidetyn Suomen Ilmasota -seminaarin esitelmien YouTube videoihin, mukaan laitoin myös Windin suoritusilmoituksen hänen 27.5.1944 lentämästä näkötiedustelulennosta sekä Puron vastaavan tämän 22.5.1944 näkötiedustelulennosta. I also added a new Dornier Do 17Z photo to the Air gunners page.
13.5.2014 I added a new page, The lengths of the RAF operational tours.
26.4.2014 lisäsin blogiini 3 linkkiä Suomen Ilmailumuseossa Vantaalla 2005 pidetyn Suomen Ilmasota -seminaarin esitelmiin YouTubessa.
15.4.2014 I added to my blog my review on Richard J. Smith's and Eddie J. Creek's Me 262 Volume One.
17.3.2014 lisäsin blogiini Olavi Puron Mersu-ässä kirjan arvostelun.
13.2.2014 Joitakin lisäyksiä Suomalaiset syöksypommittajat talvisodassa artikkeliin / Some additions to the
Suomalaiset syöksypommittajat talvisodassa article.
26.12.2013 I corrected the broken photo link on the Disaster at High Seas page.
11.12.2013 I added my review on the FlyPast Special WELLINGTON onto my blog.
29.11.2013 I added to the Soviet turn time tests page two new sources which I used together with the relevant Gordon's books and some copies from a Russian book while thinking over the question was the Tomahawk tested at the NII VVS IIA or IIB, in other words comparable to the P-40B or to the P-40C. In the end I decised to keep it as a P-40C because while the serial given on Gordon's book is that of a Tomahawk IIA the armament given is that of the P-40C and the weight given is clearly nearer to that of the P-40C.
27.10.2013 I added my review on Steven J. Zaloga’s Panzer IV vs Char B1 bis Osprey Duel 33 (2011) onto my blog.
14.10.2013 Lauri Pekuri: Hävittäjälentäjä -kirjan arvostelu
6.10.2013 Avasin blogini. artikkelilla Hyvää ilmailukirjallisuutta - osa 1.
5.10.2013 I added my review on Robert Forczyk’s Fw 200 Condor vs Atlantic Convoy 1941 - 43 onto my blog.
5.9.2013 I added Tony Jonsson's date of death into my first blog.
2.9.2013 I added Tony Jonsson's service history into my first blog.
1.9.2013 I opened my blog with an article on some of my favorite memoirs of WWII pilots.
26.8.2013 I added a photo of Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-6 onto the Soviet turn time tests page.
23.8.2013 I added the entry of Yak-9U onto the Soviet turn time tests page.
22.8.2013 I continued the additions onto the Soviet turn time tests page based on my notes from Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2 which made possible to add the entry of P-40M-5-CU.
15.8.2013 I continued the additions onto the Soviet turn time tests page based on my notes from Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2 which made possible to add entries of 3 more versions of Yak-1from years 1941 and 1942. I also added a photo of a P-47D onto the page.
14.8.2013 made a couple adjustments to Bf 109F entries after rereading some of my materials and continued the additions based on my notes from Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2 which made possible to add entries of Hurricane IIC and IID, P-400/Airacobra Mk. Is, P-39L-1-BE and P-39Q-25-BE and to add weight info into P-63A entry.
13.8.2013 made some additions and stylistic corrections onto the Soviet turn time tests page. I visited my brother today and he showed to me his copy of Gordon's Soviet Air Power in World War 2 and allowed me to take some notes from it, so in addition the few additions I had planned to do I was able to add entries of Yak-7A, -9T and -9DD and also that of Spitfire HF. IX. I was also able to add the weight and armament info to Yak-9D and -9M entries. And I was able to change the power rating of Merlin 46 by adding 15hp in the Spitfire Mk VB entry and add the weight, for Spitfire LF. IX I was able to add the weight and the armament info because the book confirmed that the tested plane had the E-wing. I will make some more additions later.
12.8.2013 adding a new page, Disaster at High Seas.
11.8.2013 adding a photo of the LG-3 of the FiAF onto the Soviet turn time tests page. LG-3 was a war-booty LaGG-3 serie 35 serving at the LeLv 32 of the FiAF.
15.7.2013 adding the page Results of the Soviet turn time tests.
16.4.2013 small additions to July 7 1943 story on the Air gunners page
11.4.2013 adding July 7 1943 455 Squadron Hampden against 1./JG 5 Bf 109Gs story on the Air gunners page.
13.2.2013 adding the Air gunners page.
6.2.2013 Adding the Link page and my e-mail address onto Kuka olen / Who I am -page
31.1.2013 Adding a photo of Bf 109E onto pages Deadly Avro Anson and The first aerial victory of a British pilot/gunner during the WW II.
