Pictures from WW2 (Finnish)

[Jani.R]

Here are various pictures from Finland in ww2, credits for the orginal copyright holders, oh and some might be post-war (the ones with concards on tanks/planes)













(postwar)








Parlament during ww2(?)


Soviet planet that Germans captured and gave to Finnish AIF.





































German POWs captured during lapland war.




POW getting treatment



Soviet rifle, probably captured by finnish troops.


http://koti.mbnet.fi/jani_r/Military...Spol-kuva1.jpg (grafic, 2 militarypolices checking dead russians ID, no blood)



AA-fire from Suomenlinna



Suursaari, dead german on the right.








Railroad artillery.



Turku burning after Soviet bombing attack.



Heavy AA-gun.




Crossing the border to Soviet Union at the start of continuation war.



2 Finnish submarines.



AT-gun.




Hidden armorboat.






Moscow Peace borders crossed.




Finnish truck that drove into mine.




Searching for mines.




Bridge crossing (see background)





All that was left from Ivalo after Germans(?) left it.






Hawker-Hurricane





Finnish STUG in Russia



Bristol Blenheim



Buffalo





Bofors 40mm AA-gun.














Probably taken after war.





Taken after war. (see the sign on tank)







after-war



Post-war, captured Russian t-34 "sotka"



German STUG, post-war


Engineers getting ready for strike.



Cutting barbed-wire



Having coffee during "break"



ship cannon frozen.



No idea whats happening on this.



Armorboat "Ilmarinen" before getting sunk by enemy mine.

Thats all for now, check later for more, and i don't own these pics. I have just uploaded them to my own FTP as the orginal sites where i got them have usually closed down.

[NicNZ]

Very nice, thanks. Impressive camo on that Armourboat.

[Jani.R]

Very nice, thanks. Impressive camo on that Armourboat.

More "hidden" ships

[letting go four hands]

Peek a boo I see you. Nice pic but i wonder what a colour shot whould look like?

[Lazarou]

armorboat

Coastal defence ship

[Hukatus]

Jani.R, very nice pictures, thanks for posting

[speckfire]

Finland.. tough mofos

[G-Capo]

Nice images!

[Heron]

big collection
thx for posting

[Jhelen]

Thanks a lot of posting those.. nice images

[Switek]

I read some books and articles about Soviet-Finnish war 1940. I was impressed how relativly small Finnish Army was so efficient to stop invasion. Great picts. Thanks for sharing...

[Lazarou]

I read some books and articles about Soviet-Finnish war 1940. I was impressed how relativly small Finnish Army was so efficient to stop invasion. Great picts. Thanks for sharing...

Winter War (The Soviet Union attacks Finland) : November 30, 1939 - March 13, 1940
Continuation War (The Soviet Union attacks Finland again): June 25, 1941 - September 4, 1944
Lapland War (Finland drives German forces out of Lapland): September 1944 - April 1945

Most of these pics seem to be from 1941-45 and the post-war years.

Most of them are from http://www.sodatkuvina.cjb.net/

[tkks]

Peek a boo I see you. Nice pic but i wonder what a colour shot whould look like?

Would probably look better in colors. The Finnish Navy still uses the same tactics. Hence the camo pattern of Finnish Navy ships even today.
Might not look that special now, but even larger ships can be effectively hidden in the archipelago using special nettings etc.

The Turku archipelago, if not the largest, is at least one of the largest arcipelagos in the world. So there is, only God knows how many places to hide a ship. I've saw only one or two when I was a conscript.

If all is done properly it's extremely hard to spot the hidden vessels even at quite close distance. Couple of times they took us on a boat to see our masterwork from further away after we had finished the camouflge operation and I must say that at first we did not believe, that it would be so effective. If you don't know that there should be a ship, you can't see it. Works both in summer and winter. At winter you just have to spray somekind of foam to hide your tracks because of the ice.

I've also seen some photos of those camouflaged ships, taken from airplanes and it's extremely difficult to spot the ships in the photos, even when you know that there really is a ship. There aren't that much official public photos, i've seen only one that is in one book they give for conscripts who serve in the Finnish navy.

[Switek]

Would probably look better in colors. The Finnish Navy still uses the same tactics. Hence the camo pattern of Finnish Navy ships even today.

Very intersting. How other Navy uses woodland (or land) camo instead naval ones? Probaly none or just few...

[finnjävel]

Good collection Jani.R! I would so like to have high-res set of those pictures. TK-pictures have always been cool to see.