Photos WW2 Finnish armed forces

[Fish&Chips]

What weapon they are posing with at the first picture?Looks like a browning m1918 but I am not sure.Can someone prove?

Judging from the mag and the bipod mount, it is a Swedish Kg M1921 which is based on the Browning M1919

 

[SamWell]

Judging from the mag and the bipod mount, it is a Swedish Kg M1921 which is based on the Browning M1919

Thank you mate for a helpful info

 

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Continuation War, Finland.
Foreign newspaper reporters takes a look at the old border and some of the battlefields in the area. Korpiselkä 1941.07.25 (SA-kuva)

 

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Finnish Soldiers from Colonel Blick's 2nd Division "Murtajadivisioona" (Breaker Division) in Lahdenpohja, Ladoga Karelia. 8 August 1941.

 

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Field marshal Mannerheim greeting officers of the Swedish Volunteer Battalion at Hanko during a snowstorm, the banner of the Volunteer Battalion can be seen in the background, Finland, 14 December 1941. [colorized]

 

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Continuation War, Finland.
Finnish troops crosses a lake, German and Finnish officers observing the operation. Kananainen village area. 1941.07.25 (SA-kuva)

 

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[BravoZulu]

A 75 K/40(the German PaK 40 in Finnish Army service) in a defensive fortification, believed to belong to the Estonian volunteers from the 200th Infantry Regiment, June 1944

 

[SamWell]

Finnish POWs taken in Battle of Summa (1-15 february)
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[SamWell]

Captured Vyborg.Japan,Italian,and other Axis officers visiting their Finnish ally.

Finns and Italians in Hanko

 

[Connaught Ranger]

Judging from the mag and the bipod mount, it is a Swedish Kg M1921 which is based on the Browning M1919

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[SamWell]

Finnish POWs taken in Operation Silver Fox

 

[SamWell]

Finnish soldiers and swedish supplied Landsverk L-62_Anti in Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offencive

 

[SamWell]

Finnish soldier posing near executed people somewhere in finnish occupied Karelia

 

[BravoZulu]

Finnish soldier posing near executed people somewhere in finnish occupied Karelia
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I'm questioning the "executed people" phrase. You seem to imply that the Finns have executed a group of civilians in Finnish occupied Karelia.

My research has this image as being among the dead and wounded left behind during the breakout from the Karelian Isthmus by the 176th and the 289th Rifle divisions on 12/13 August 1944.

IMHO this image is of dead and possibly a wounded man left behind in the retreat by Soviet forces, not civilians

 

[SamWell]

I'm questioning the "executed people" phrase. You seem to imply that the Finns have executed a group of civilians in Finnish occupied Karelia.

My research has this image as being among the dead and wounded left behind during the breakout from the Karelian Isthmus by the 176th and the 289th Rifle divisions on 12/13 August 1944.

IMHO this image is of dead and possibly a wounded man left behind in the retreat by Soviet forces, not civilians

Мy sources said that these people are the executed prisoners of war,i am not tryed to say that they are civilians.Next time I will clarify. I apologize if I was misled someone.

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

The original caption is "Finnish Sniper". The zone of action of the 7th Army of the Northwestern Front

 

[Иван Феоктистов]

The original caption of the photograph: "One of the killed Finns in the Summa-yoki region, December 1939".