Share Your Finnish Photos

[SnowMonster]

here's a few pictures from my grandfather's album. here he is(1st pic) Svir powerplant, unknown soldiers and places. He also wounded at least two times Attachment 703250 Attachment 703266Attachment 703265Attachment 703264Attachment 703262Attachment 703261Attachment 703258Attachment 703257Attachment 703256Attachment 703254Attachment 703253Attachment 703267Attachment 703263 Attachment 703268Attachment 703260Attachment 703259Attachment 703252Attachment 703251

[Aleksander P]

Very nice photos! I wonder who the Lieutenant-Colonel in the photo is.

[SnowMonster]

Unfortunately, I do not know anything about the photos maybe from the same village or just a good fellow

[kradman]

Nice photos again thank you for showing

[Finnlander]

I digged through our old house and found these pictures. The pics are unfortunately sideways, though they are properly in my computer. If some mod could fix this anyhow, I'd appreciate this greatly.

Finnish brothers in war, but very far away from each other..

The Finnish soldier is my greatgrandfather Armas Kivelä during his years as a private. He later in the war became Lieutenant second class.

The SS soldier is my greatuncle Mikko Pentti, who volunteered to Finnische Freiwilligen bataillon der Nordost (later on Wiking/Nordland) and served in Eastern Front; Ukraine.

[Finnlander]

And more family photos. And again, the pics are messed up, sorry for that. It is impossible to upload them correctly from my computer.

[Aleksander P]

I digged through our old house and found these pictures. The pics are unfortunately sideways, though they are properly in my computer. If some mod could fix this anyhow, I'd appreciate this greatly.

The Finnish soldier is my greatgrandfather Armas Kivelä during his years as a private. He later in the war became Lieutenant second class.

The SS soldier is my greatuncle Mikko Pentti, who volunteered to Finnish SS Nordost (later on Wiking/Nordland) and served in Eastern Front; Ukraine.

Very interesting and nice photos, thank you for sharing! Do you know what happened to your great-uncle and did he survive the war?

I turned the photos the right way for you .

[Aleksander P]

Here are the rest of the photos turned the right way. If you don't mind, I did a quick crop on a couple of them. Do you know who the Reserve Officer School student is in the photo ? It seems that the photo was taken in the interwar period and that he was valiant in the Winter War, as he has two Medals of Liberties.

[Finnlander]

Thanks Aleksander!

Unfortunately Im not sure about the SS man, but If I recall right, he survived the war. I've visited his grave in Parkano once, and I dont remember seeing his time of death as wartime, because that would've definetly caught my eye.

Now that you mentioned it, I didnt even pay attention who the officer candidate is. I compared the SS man and the candidate and they seem to be the same man, Mikko Pentti!

[Aleksander P]

Thanks Aleksander!

Unfortunately Im not sure about the SS man, but If I recall right, he survived the war. I've visited his grave in Parkano once, and I dont remember seeing his time of death as wartime, because that would've definetly caught my eye.

Now that you mentioned it, I didnt even pay attention who the officer candidate is. I compared the SS man and the candidate and they seem to be the same man, Mikko Pentti!

Thank you for the info! I didn't realize that it was him at first . You must be very proud of your heritage.

Do you have any of Mikko's items?