Winter War

[Wustenfuchs]

Check out this movie if you can find it. Excellent!

YouTube - The Winter War - Talvisota

[krieg]

Originally Posted by Wustenfuchs

Check out this movie if you can find it. Excellent!

YouTube - The Winter War - Talvisota

yes it is a grand movie i have watched it a fue times i like the part where is
puting himself out when on fire ..

[Wustenfuchs]

Originally Posted by krieg

yes it is a grand movie i have watched it a fue times i like the part where is
puting himself out when on fire ..

Yes and laughing about it!

[krieg]

Originally Posted by Wustenfuchs

Yes and laughing about it!

a bunch of brave men

[Geek44]

My grandfather was a veteran of that war. My father migrated to Australia from Finland in 1961. I've been lucky enough to visit some of the less well-known sites in Finland and have stood on the rear deck of a T-34/76 captured in The Continuation War.
Another member of this forum sent me a copy of Talvesotta last Christmas because it's totally unknown in Australia. It's an awesome movie that I've only watched once so far. Here's my grandfather's 'war trophies'.

[McCoy]

Talvisota is a great movie n' I remember that I thought it was rather long to see at the theater back in the day's when it was premiered here in Sweden but I saw it any way at the theater, thankfully there was a 10 minute intermission in the middle of it so you could stretch the legs n' move about a little. Anyway a great movie n' there's other great movies out there that deals with both the the Winter war n' the Continuation war.

[krieg]

Originally Posted by Geek44

My grandfather was a veteran of that war. My father migrated to Australia from Finland in 1961. I've been lucky enough to visit some of the less well-known sites in Finland and have stood on the rear deck of a T-34/76 captured in The Continuation War.
Another member of this forum sent me a copy of Talvesotta last Christmas because it's totally unknown in Australia. It's an awesome movie that I've only watched once so far. Here's my grandfather's 'war trophies'.

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nice trophies . belong on a officer??


a great peace of the film where he puts the peace of wood it the track of the russian tank then the fule bomb

[Geek44]

I'm not sure if they're officer's insignia but I suspect not. I think they're from a soft cap. They're both beautifully enamelled and the hammer/sickle devices are brass. They have a weight that later Soviet stuff lacked. There are also three little triangle devices...one is missing, that went on epaulettes we think.
Somewhere here I also have a 'Lotta Svärd' (women's auxilliary) badge too that belonged to my grandmother. I had my grandfather's bayonet also but I gave it to a friend who collects such things.

[krieg]

there is another film .finland . soldats it is called .. the unknown soldat..
if you ever get a chance to see it . do so . a great film
best krieg

[Tom Houlihan]

There's an interesting documentary type film called "Fire and Ice." It's good if you don't know much about the conflict.