Comments on: Finnish Armored Forces in WW2

By: Mahtimeisseli

Mahtimeisseli — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:27:38 +0000

“Of other Soviet vehicles captured in Winter War also a couple of BT-5s and BT-7s saw some service in the Heavy Tank Platoon, quite an ironic unit for such a tank.”

I think all BT-tanks that the Christie Detachment used were captured in Continuation War. Finns indeed captured a nice number of BTs in Winter War from the mottis in Ladoga Karelia, but none of those were brought to Finland before the peace was made. So those tanks were left to their original owners.

But in overall, this was a very nice article. Almost every important thing about the Finnish Armored Forces in WW2 was mentioned. The only missing thing worth mentioning was the up-armoring of T-28 tanks in 1942. Finns captured their first T-28E from Pyhäjärvi in 20th of May 1942 and “inspired” by it’s appliqué armor, Finns up-armored rest of T-28s in the same fashion.

By: KazukiHyena

KazukiHyena — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 02:33:51 +0000

Hakaristi is still a relatively common symbol in Finland, it’s on the flag for the Finnish president for example. The manji symbol which looks a like a reversed swastika is still common today as it is used in Buddism and many other Eastern religious symbolism, in Korea I believe what most westerners think of as a swastika is used to mark temples.

By: Karika

Karika — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:45:28 +0000

“In 1942, Finnish army acquired six Landsverk Anti II (Luftvärnskanonvagn L-62 Anti II) from Sweden, that formed AA-defenses of the division. These were developed from Hungarian Toldi tank and also used in Hungary.”

Two negligible things:
Technically the Landsverk L-62 (the predecessor of the Hungarian Nimród) was developped from the L-60 (the predecessor of the Hungarian Toldi light tank) and not from the Toldi itself.

The other minor thing is that the Landsverk Anti II was not used by Hungary, they modified it, and manufactured it domestically under the name of 36/40M. Nimród self-propelled autocannon.

nice article btw :)

By: Silentstalker

Silentstalker — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:33:49 +0000

Yep, I know – at least you can see I am not prejudiced ;) I see no point in bringing it up though – EFE has nothing to do with this article just as R1SE has nothing to do with me writing FTR…

By: Szlejer .

Szlejer . — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 20:14:17 +0000

Keep the congratulations coming, this article was written by an EFE member. You know that most evil clan you all sooo like to hate. ;-))

By: CrimsonSam

CrimsonSam — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:31:42 +0000

I knew about other uses of swastika..
But I didn’t knew other courtries also ised it at that time.

By: Schepel

Schepel — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:17:28 +0000

Well written article, good job.

By: Kantti

Kantti — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 17:42:18 +0000

Yes. Finnish air force and armored forces used swastika. Please note that the swastika is untilted (compared to nazi swastika) and was not related to nazis. It was quite common symbol at that time even if deeds of Nazi Germany tainted it forever afterwards.

By: CrimsonSam

CrimsonSam — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 17:38:11 +0000

Finns also used Swastika?

By: Macepotta

Macepotta — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:18:02 +0000

Very interesing article!

Finland recently bought 100 Leopard 2A6 as well.