Gloster Gladiator Mk.I / J-8A
Finland - Finnish Air Force 
(Ilmavoimat), unit: Flygflottilj 19 
(Swedish voluntary unit), 
Winter war 1939-40.
Code: F

Winter camo version for Northern and Finland campaigns 
in the 190D slot, adapted from a file by Jan Tuma.

cheers
Ade Kelly 'flying tiger'
sept 2006

Info courtesy of Jan Tuma:

F19 based at Veitsiluto.
Lt.Ian Iacobi scored the unit's first victory, 
a Soviet Polikarpov I-15bis, 
in this aircraft on 12 January 1940. 
The Flygflottilj 19 shot down 8 Soviet aircraft 
and prevented the bombing of towns in Lapland.



