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    Jorma Kalevi Sarvanto (22 August 1912 – 16 October 1963) was a Finnish Air Force pilot and the foremost Finnish fighter ace of the Winter War. Sarvanto...
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    Rudorffer Jorma Sarvanto Karl Schnörrer Reiner Stahel Alois Windisch 3rd Class Simo Häyhä Ilmari Juutilainen Paul Klatt Einar Lundborg Carl Petersén Jorma Sarvanto...
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    a day, with six and five victories respectively. On 6 January 1940, Jorma Sarvanto, a Finnish lieutenant, destroyed six Soviet DB-3 bombers in four minutes...
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  • Finnish weightlifter Jorma Sarvanto (1912–1963), Finnish Air Force pilot Jorma Taccone (born 1977), American writer, actor and director Jorma Tommila (born 1959)...
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  • trans-Pacific flight in another F.VII, the Southern Cross. Finnish pilot Jorma Sarvanto shot down six Soviet Ilyushin DB-3s in a quick succession using a Fokker...
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    became fighter aces with the Fokker D.XXI. The top scoring Fokker ace, Jorma Sarvanto, obtained 12 5/6 victories with the type; many other future aces also...
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    women organised by the Lotta Svärd. The top scoring fighter ace was Jorma Sarvanto, with 12.83 victories. He would increase his tally during the Continuation...
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  • lieutenant general (1892–1978) Mika Peltonen – brigadier general (from 2005) Jorma Sarvanto – fighter pilot, World War II ace Ensio Siilasvuo – general (1922–2001)...
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  • only guess at what had happened. On one occasion, the Finnish ace Jorma Kalevi Sarvanto encountered a formation of seven DB-3 bombers on 6 January 1940...
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    on Soviet loss records), becoming an ace in a day and parallelling Jorma Sarvanto's score on 6 January 1940 in the Winter War. Juutilainen refused an officer...
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