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Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Category: Finnish military personnel of World War II. 13 languages. ... Finnish World War II pilots (1 C, 2 P) V. Volunteers in the Winter War (1 C, 24 P) W.
Finnish military personnel of World War II (5 C, 195 P) Pages in category "Finnish people of World War II" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
Lauri Allan Törni (28 May 1919 – 18 October 1965), later known as Larry Alan Thorne, was a Finnish-born soldier who fought under three flags: as a Finnish Army officer in the Winter War and the Continuation War ultimately gaining a rank of captain; as a Waffen-SS captain (under the alias Larry Laine) of the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS when he fought the Red Army on the ...
Finnish soldiers raise the flag at the three-country cairn between Norway, Sweden, and Finland on 27 April 1945, which marked the end of World War II in Finland.. Finland participated in the Second World War initially in a defensive war against the Soviet Union, followed by another, this time offensive, war against the Soviet Union acting in concert with Nazi Germany and then finally fighting ...
Pages in category "Military history of Finland during World War II" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Finnish soldiers raise the war flag at the three-country cairn between Norway, Sweden, and Finland on 27 April 1945, the end of World War II in Finland Raising the Flag on the Three-Country Cairn [ Note 1 ] is a historic photograph taken on 27 April 1945, which was the last day of the Second World War in Finland .
People of the Finnish Civil War (3 C) ... Finnish military personnel of World War II (5 C, 195 P) This page was last edited on 1 July 2022, at 05:51 (UTC). Text ...