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  Finnish Air Force History
The war experiences proved both the tactics and the training to be right and as a result, the main fighters Fokker D.XXIs were able to achieve an exchange ratio (kills in air combat versus losses in air combat) of 16:1 against Soviet combat aircraft.
Again the Finnish fighter force was stronger in the end of the war than it had been in the beginning of that.
From the opening shots of the Winter War to the end of the Continuation War the Finnish objective was to save Finland and guarantee her independence.
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 Attack 1941
South of them operated the Finnish 3rd Army Corps, which was in practice just the 3rd Division (the 6th Division being with the German 36th Army Corps), attempting to advance towards Vienan Kemi and Louhi.
Meanwhile in the flanks the troops continued towards Sortavala close to the northern tip of Lake Laatokka (7th Army Corps in the right/southern flank), and still had a lot of the ceded Laatokka-Karjala to free of the Soviet occupier in the left/northern flank (Group Oinonen) of the Karelian Army.
The 8th Division was transferred from the Karelian isthmus during October to the area north-east of Suojärvi between Group Oinonen and Brigade K. After Porajärvi Brigade K advanced towards Juustjärvi from the west.
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 Fire and Ice: History
The main goal of the Finnish Army was to this point to delay the Soviet attacks and although the Soviets had been successful in their advance – most of the Finnish troops were still intact.
The commander of the Finnish II Corps was Lt. General Öhquist and he was one of the main proponents of the Finns taking such an agressive action.
The 6th Division took the brunt of the Soviet fire and the Finnish losses were quite high.
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 Fire and Ice: History
The Finnish plans for defense in the area were much along the same as the Winter War, which was the dependence on various fortified defensive lines.
As Mannerheim was forced to move Finnish troops from this region to assist on the Isthmus, the Finnish forces in the area were approximately 50,000.
Finnish artillery during the Continuation War was one of the better forces at laying down fast and accurate fire and the results of their ability were thousands of dead Red Army soldiers.
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 World War II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Many consider World War II to be the only true world war due to the overwhelming number of nations involved and the extraordinary number of theatres—from Europe and the Soviet Union to North Africa, China, South East Asia and the Pacific.
Post–World War II Europe was partitioned into Western and Soviet spheres of influence, the former undergoing economic reconstruction under the Marshall Plan and the latter becoming satellite states of the Soviet Union.
The Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union began with Soviet air attacks shortly after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, on 25 June, and ended with an armistice in 1944.
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 Finland & the continuation war
On the 3 July 1941 Finnish 14th Division which was operating independently in the Rukajärvi sector crossed to the Russian side and was engaged in heavy fighting.
Finnish government tried for twice to initiate peace talks, after Stalingrad catastrophe in early 1943, and after the siege of Leningrad had been broken in the spring of 1944.
Finnish Airforce had a mixture of mostly obsolete aircraft for the duration of the war.
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 Taipale
When the war broke down on November 30, 1939, the Soviet troops prepared to invade Finland from the South-East part of Karelian Isthmus initially consisted of two divisions, 49th and 150th, combined into "North-East operating group" under command of army coimmander of II rank Vladimir Davydovitch Grendal.
Finnish batallion advanced from main defence line for 2 km to the south end of Koukkuniemi but Russian troops dug there with furious resistance so Finns were forced to retreat.
In the time of Continuation war, during the large scale offensive of Summer 1944 their troops just stopped in front of Taipale and didn't attempted to cross it till the end of hostilities...
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 FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: ARTILLERY PART 5
During Winter War Finnish Army captured modernised 122 H/09-30 and 122 H/10-30 versions of this howitzer, which inspired Finns to modernise their 122 H/09 and 122 H/10 howitzers with similar modernisation.
Finnish modernisation included same enlarging of room for larger propellant charge and reinforcements to gun carriage, but it seems that perforated muzzle brake was left off from quite a few of them.
Finnish military captured 41 of these howitzers during Continuation War, the large majority of them (25 howitzers) in Carelia north of Lake Ladoga during at summer of 1941.
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 WWII WORLD WAR TWO
World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th century conflict that engulfed much of the globe and is accepted as the largest and deadliest war in human history.
Resistance during World War II occurred in every occupied country by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation, disinformation and propaganda to hiding crashed pilots and even to outright warfare and the recapturing of towns.
During the war the Germans produced various Glide bomb weapons, which were the first smart bombs; the V-1 flying bomb, which was the first cruise missile weapon; and the V-2 rocket, the first ballistic missile weapon.
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 Finnish 6th Division Continuation War | Mortgage Protection Continuation Insurance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
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HISTORICAL WAR WHEELS The Belgian non-profit Association "HISTORICAL WAR WHEELS" was established on September 1, 1988 by a handful of old military vehicle collectors.
Suomen Armeija 4th Light Infantry Unit, KEV OS.4 2nd Corps 4th Division, Army Of The Isthmus: Unit portraying the 4th Light Unit (fast-attack unit) from the Winter War of 1939-40 and the Continuation War of 1941-44.
The World War II Reenactor's Consumer Guide A website which lists sources and customer reviews of WWII related suppliers of uniforms, equipment, firearms, etc. A great place to see who is out there.
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 war and social upheaval: World War I country overviews F-L
The war in many ways was the central event of the 20th century and the consequences of the War affected much of the 20th century and have not yet fully played out.
This World War I in the Balkans was a continuation of the wars begun earlier, but on a wider scale.
This division was heavily engaged on the Somme (July 1916).
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 World War II -- Finland
The Finnish war experience was one of the most unusual of the War.
Finland was actually involved in three different wars: the Winter War (1939-40), the Continuation War (1941-44), and the Lappland War (1944-45).
Although the Soviet's did not enter the War against Britain and France, the Soviets were virtual NAZI allies as they provided large quantaies of strategic materials, especially oil.
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 Finnish armoured trains and OoB? - Message Board - ezboard.com
Finnish Stug's destroyed 82 Soviet tanks while own losses were 8 assault-guns during the intensive battles of summer 1944.
Other non-Finnish units in the Puolustusvoimat during the Continuation War were SFB, Swedish volunteer battalion, operational in 1941, Tribal Battalion 3, which was formed out of POWs who were Carelians or Ingrians and spoke Finnish, JR 200, an Estonian regiment, which was formed in 1944 and later returned to defend Estonia against Soviets.
JP's PG2 CC 17 The Finnish Lumberjack Regiment — Adlerkorps
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