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Pages in category "Finnish military personnel of World War II" The following 195 pages are in this category, out of 195 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A copy of Vapautemme hinta. Vapautemme hinta ('The price of our freedom') is a 1941 book compiled by the Finnish magazine Suomen Kuvalehti.It consists of the names and, when available, pictures of all the Finnish soldiers who died in the Winter War from 1939–1940 between Finland and the Soviet Union.
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 approximately 221 total.
Pages in category "Finnish military personnel killed in World War II" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Koivunen was a Finnish soldier, assigned to a ski patrol on 15 March 1944 along with several other Finnish soldiers. Three days into their mission on 18 March, the group was attacked and surrounded by Soviet forces, from whom they were able to escape. [3] Koivunen became fatigued after skiing for a long distance but could not stop.
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.
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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 ...