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This Guy Loved Soldiering and Hated the Soviets

749 views 12 replies 12 participants last post by  Stumpkiller 
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Yep solider of three armies

He reallllly hatted the commies
 
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Hadn't heard of him before - Thanks for posting.

I've been a long time fan of Simo Hayha. He wasn't so much a career soldier as a sportsman who became the man his country needed when the Soviets tried to annex a chunk of Finland.
 
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Gotta love the Finnish fighting man, The story of Finland in WW2 is just amazing, first the Fins get real good at killing Germans in the snow, eventually defeated but still very much intact they surrender, and become part of the German army invading Russia, very professional "old school "Finnish Marshal Mannerhiem refuses to shell helpless Russian mothers and children or get out of the way for the Nazis to do it in the bitter winter, and the Fins still intact retreat with the beaten Germans, Eventually the Finnish army surrenders to the Russian army and again still intact they are turned to killing Germans...The Finnish army at the time was run by old White Russian officer corp, by any accounting the Russians and the Fins did for the Nazis, in WW2....
 
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Their air force was just as amazing. They, like the Flying Tigers/Hell's Angels of the AVG, kept well over 5:1 against the Russians in old Brewster Buffalos (rejected by our Navy) and fixed gear Fokker XXI (you know it's old if it used Roman numerals!) in awful conditions. In the Continuation War their Brewster pilots achieved a 32:1 kill ratio! Nothing like it until modern jet stand-off missile warfare in Desert Storm. They are credited with developing the "Finger Four" formation our fighter pilots still use.

Yeah, I'm a little prejudiced - Finnish/Scandanavian roots in the family tree. ;-)
 
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