How the Worst Plane of WWII Scored the Best Kill Record

Описание: The Brewster Buffalo is remembered as one of WWII’s worst fighters — a slow, clumsy “Flying Coffin” that got massacred at Midway. But in Finland, the very same plane racked up an unbelievable 26-to-1 kill ratio—the deadliest of the war. How could one aircraft be both the best and the worst?

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