Lauri Allan Törni (28 May 1919 – 18 October 1965), later known as
Larry Alan Thorne, was a
Finnish soldier who fought under three flags: as a
Finnish Army second lieutenant of the Fourth Independent Jäger Infantry Battalion against the
Red Army in the
Winter War and the Soviet-Finnish sub-theater of
World War II known as the
Continuation War; as a
German Army captain (under the alias
Larry Lane) of the
Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS when he fought the Red Army on the
Eastern Front in World War II; and as a
United States Army Captain (under the alias "Larry Thorne") when he served in the
U.S. Army Special Forces in the
Vietnam War.
Törni died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War and he was promoted to the rank of major posthumously. His remains were located three decades later and then buried in
Arlington National Cemetery; he is the only former member of the
Waffen-SS to be interred there.