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Monday, October 15, 2018

Weapons of War - de Bange 90 mm cannon - Jumping Henry's

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“No one knew what would happen when they rammed the artillery shot into the rear of the canon, locked it, and pulled the rope hanging from...
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Monday, September 10, 2018

Finnish War Veterans Grave Markers

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I enjoy visiting graveyards, seeing the history and wondering the lives they lived. It is also a place to pay respects to our ancestors an...
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Monday, August 20, 2018

Heroes of Finland – Pekka Vesainen – The ‘First Sissi’

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In the summer of 1589 the town of Kandalaksha was burning, in the distance a column of rugged Finns were marching towards their next targe...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Memorial Hunter – Memorials of the Ancestors of Karelia

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At the conclusion of the Continuation War in September 1944, the Finns ceded a large part of Finnish Karelia to the Soviet Union in return ...
Monday, June 18, 2018

Finnish Waffen-SS Battalion Investigation – Why it needs to happen and how Historical Revision isn’t always a bad thing

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Thursday 31st May saw the Finnish Prime Minister’s Officer announced the opening of an independent probe into those Finnish citizens who ser...
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Monday, June 4, 2018

Marshal of Finland - A birthday gift from Finland

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On the morning of the 4th June 1942, Field Marshal (Sotamarsalkka) Mannerheim found himself confronted by a large delegation of civilian m...
Monday, May 28, 2018

Weapons of War - 76 K/02 – Finland’s first gun

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At 0900 on the morning of the 3 rd February 1918 two shots rang out over the Oulujoki river. These shots, fired from two 76.2 mm division...