Urho Lehtovaara

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Urho Lehtovaara
27 October 1917 - 5 January 1949

Place of birth	Pyhäjärvi
Place of death	Suomusjärvi
Allegiance	Finland
Service/branch	Finnish Air Force
Years of service	1937-1946
Rank	Warrant Officer
Unit	LeLv 26, LeLv 28, LeLv 34
Other work	Cinema owner

Urho Sakari Lehtovaara was born on October 27, 1917 in Pyhäjärvi, northern Finland and died on January 5, 1949. He was to become one of the top scoring Finnish Air Force aces and he was awarded the Mannerheim cross on July 9, 1944.

Lehtovaara would eventually fly over 400 missions, scoring 44 1/2 victories with Morane-Saulnier M.S.406s and Messerschmitt Bf 109s^[1]. He retired from the Finnish Air Force in 1946 and started to run his own cinema.

1 Victories
2 References
- 2.1 Notes
- 2.2 Bibliography
3 See also

[edit] Victories

Aircraft	Victories

Morane-Saulnier MS.406	15
Messerschmitt Bf 109G	29.5
Total	44.5

[edit] References

[edit] Notes

^ Keskinen 1978, p. 16-19.

[edit] Bibliography

Keskinen, Kalevi; Stenman, Kari and Niska, Klaus. Hävittäjä-ässät (Finnish Fighter Aces) (in Finnish). Espoo, Finland: Tietoteos, 1978. ISBN 951-9035-37-0.
Stenman, Kari and Keskinen, Kalevi. Finnish Aces of World War 2 (Aircraft of the Aces 23). Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-85532-783-X.