Finnish WWII Images

[Nath[BDP]]

"Last month the Finnish Defence Forces put an archive of 160,000 WWII-era photographs online. The images record the war years from 1939 to 1945, spanning three conflicts the Finns recognize as the Winter War (against an invading Soviet Union), the Continuation War (striking against the Soviets alongside the Germans) and the Lapland War (against the Germans for control of Lapland). After spending hours poring through this fascinating archive, I've gathered this collection, just a glimpse of what was made available. A couple of notes on the images -- the swastika was used as the official national marking of the Finnish Air Force and Tank Corps between 1918 and 1945, and all captions were relatively brief, and written in Finnish, so please let me know in the comments if there are any mistakes, or if you can elaborate on what is pictured."

http://ironchefsworld.com/forum/index.php/topic,6289.0.html

[Nath[BDP]]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TwQmwbQttkY

[Rich46yo]

Great find. TY.

[Bizman]

Here's the link to the source: http://www.sa-kuva.fi/

[Skytrooper]

When I was in Finland in 2012, my son and I went and looked at some of the fortifications in Joensu. There was a small history museum in one of the bunkers that was very good.

[Bizman]

When I was in Finland in 2012, my son and I went and looked at some of the fortifications in Joensuu. There was a small history museum in one of the bunkers that was very good.

What a small world this is! I live about one km from the bunker museum. Had I known, we could have met over a nice cup of coffee or something like that. 

[Nurminen]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TwQmwbQttkY

 

 

[Skytrooper]

What a small world this is! I live about one km from the bunker museum. Had I known, we could have met over a nice cup of coffee or something like that. 

That would have been great ! It is too bad we didn't get to meet. We also went up to Koli Park, that was beautiful !