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The Winter War [F 6] was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland.It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940.
During the war the Finnish Army was responsible for the front from the Gulf of Finland to Kainuu. The front in Northern Finland was the responsibility of the German AOK Norwegen. During summer and autumn 1941, the Finnish Army re-conquered the areas lost to the Soviet Union in the Winter War and pushed deep into Soviet territory in Eastern ...
This is a list of military equipment used by Finland during World War II. The main Finnish conflicts of the war are the Winter War and Continuation War.After the Continuation war the Lapland War occurred which was a small military confrontation between Finland and Nazi Germany caused by Soviet demands that Finland force out Nazi Germany from its territory in order for Finland to comply with ...
4th Division (Winter War) 5th Division (Continuation War) 5th Division (Winter War) 6th Division (Continuation War) 6th Division (Winter War) 7th Division (Continuation War) 14th Searchlight Battery (Finland) 61st Infantry Regiment (Finland)
All Finnish line units wore the dark green uniforms of the Imperial Russian infantry and dragoons but with light blue facings as a distinction. The Guards Sharpshooters' Battalion wore yellow facings on its dark green uniform, until it was disbanded in 1905.
In the army the insignia are placed on the collar in parade and service uniforms M/58 and M/83 and in field uniforms M/62 and M/91. The Air Force places the insignia on the sleeve of M/51 instead of the collar. In the Navy where they have different parade dress they place the ranks on the sleeve and they also have the M/83 insignia on the ...
The Finnish army had much better equipment including an ushanka-style fur hat, the turkislakki M36 [a], introduced in 1936. In 1939, shortly before the Winter War, the slightly improved turkislakki M39 was introduced, and is still in use today. [4] After the Winter War, the Red Army received completely redesigned winter uniforms.
List of military corps – List of Finnish corps in the Winter War This is a list of Finnish corps that existed during the Winter War , 1939–1940. I Corps – formed February 19, 1940