Aero Kaleva

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Kaleva was a civilian Junkers Ju 52 passenger and transport airplane belonging to the Finnish carrier Aero O/Y. On 14 June 1940, as Flight 1631 from Tallin in Estonia to Helsinki in Finland, the aircraft was shot down over the Gulf of Finland by two Soviet Ilyushin DB-3 bombers, killing all nine on board. Captain Bo Hermansson von Willebrand was the pilot.
Captain von Willbrand was the sixth cousin of Grandmother Mamie (Hannula) Filpus.

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