http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 5#p1796711peeved wrote:According to the war diary of 3rd Flight/HLeLv 34 http://digi.narc.fi/digi/view.ka?kuid=4594952 the interception mission where Lt. Trontti went POW was from 1050 to 1200 hours so his loss was probably unrelated to the Serov flight.
Markus
Trontti was shot down, become a POW, and was tried to convert to a spy.
He agreed, and was sent back to Finland, but he right away revealed to Finnish officials what had happened.
Serov was claimed to have rammed Trontti plane: http://books.google.fi/books?id=k9DQ1zH ... ov&f=false
Stalin’s Falcons by Polak/Shores. According to this book:
"On 26 June 1944 he was engaged with seven Bf109Gs of the Finnish Air Force’s LeLv34. He was reported to have shot down two, and then rammed a third. This was MT-434, flown by Lt Nils R. Trontti, a seven victory ‘ace’; Trontti baled out successfully and was taken prisoner, but Serov was killed. These final successes brought the total of claims for him to 49 (at least 12 shared)."
http://www.network54.com/Forum/46825/me ... 3774/SerovMy father Carl-Erik Bruun told the following: When Trontti came back to Finland, he took contact with him and told the situation, that the Sovjets had demanded him to become a spy. He asked Carl-Erik: What to do? It was decided that Trontti was to send false information about finnish activity.
After the war Trontti told Carl-Erik that once a black car drove beside Trontti when he walked along a street in Helsinki. In the car was the Sovjet officer (?) that had demanded him to become a spy. He had shouted to Trontti that they knew where he lived! After that episode he did not hear of the Sovjets.
This is how I remember the sory from my father. I will check my father´s papers and see if there is more about this.
Göran
http://www.cieldegloire.com/000_trontti.php