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Finland releases a trove of never-before-seen WWII photographs

For the WWII buffs out there

By Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)

Military • April 2013 • Views: 4,069

sa-kuva.fi

Some of these are amazing.

Image: 165025_r500.jpg

No idea what that is, but I want one.

For those that don’t know about Finland’s role in WWII, they managed to fight both the Nazis and the Soviet Union. They delivered one of the most crippling defeats the Soviets had ever had, too.

A large part of their success was due to their comfort in the extreme conditions the war was fought in. These pictures give a good representation of the war as it was in Finland. Few action shots, of course, but a lot of really interesting stuff here.

Finland WWII Buffs

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8 comments

Stanley Sea Tue, Apr 30, 2013 10:44:33am

Brrrrrrutal.

Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Apr 30, 2013 10:55:53am

en.wikipedia.org

Probably one of these. Russian armored tractor used for utility work and towing light artillery pieces. Pretty much a “tankette” of pre-WW2 design.

Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Tue, Apr 30, 2013 10:58:16am

re: #2 Feline Fearless Leader

en.wikipedia.org

Probably one of these. Russian armored tractor used for utility work and towing light artillery pieces. Pretty much a “tankette” of pre-WW2 design.

Yeah, it kind of looks like an upgunned version of that, with a laundry-drying rack installed on top for some reason.

Romantic Heretic Tue, Apr 30, 2013 10:59:58am

I had my own beliefs here, but I see I was wrong. Oop.

The Finns had some great weapons. The best was probably their anti-tank rifle, the Lahti L-39. Their submachine gun, the Suomi KP/-31, was excellent as well. The Soviets were so impressed they copied it, much to the chagrin of the Germans.

Etaoin Shrdlu Tue, Apr 30, 2013 5:13:18pm

re: #4 Romantic Heretic

The Finns had some great weapons

Like Simo Häyhä.

Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 30, 2013 6:53:21pm

re: #3 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Yeah, it kind of looks like an upgunned version of that, with a laundry-drying rack installed on top for some reason.

That’s actually a radio aerial. Larger radio aerials are the sign of a vehicle designed for a battalion commander or higher. Aerials that big did largely disappear as WWII progressed, as ground attack aircraft such as the Soviets’ dreaded IL-2 Sturmovik used them to ID and kill higher unit leaders.

Dark_Falcon Tue, Apr 30, 2013 7:48:20pm

This archive is incredibly good, but I need to warm those viewing it: There are photos of severely injured and dead soldiers and civilians, and some of those photos are quite ghastly. Don’t peruse the archive if you plan on going to bed in the next two hours.

Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Wed, May 1, 2013 3:04:10am

re: #7 Dark_Falcon

Sorry for the lack of warning, I figured it’d be unnecessary in that WWII = dead bodies, lots of ‘em.

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