Urho Lehtovaara Military person

Urho Sakari Lehtovaara was born on 27 October 1917 in Pyhäjärvi, northern Finland and died on 15 January 1949. He was to become one of the top scoring Finnish Air Force aces and he was awarded the Mannerheim Cross on 9 July 1944.

Personal facts

Urho Lehtovaara
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1917
Birth place
Pyhäjärvi
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1949
Place of death
Suomusjärvi

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Military person

allegianceFinland
award
Mannerheim Cross
military operations
Continuation War
Winter War
World War II
military branch
Finnish Air Force
military unit
No. 26 Squadron (Finland)
No. 28 Squadron Finnish Air Force
No. 34 Squadron Finnish Air Force
service start1937
service end1946

Topical connections

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Urho Lehtovaara on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.sci.fi/~fta/finace04.htm