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04-09-2008, 08:52 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008
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 | Hello from Finland Hello to everyone, I am a Welsh man who moved to Finland last year with my Finnish wife. We are living approx 300 meters from Russia in a former border guards station (In Simo Häyhä's home village) built in 1956. Since moving here I have taken an interest in the winter and continuation wars as I previously did not know too much about them and I am looking forward to reading more. We are sorrounded locally by trenches etc and working in forestry I come across tank defences and parts of the Salpa line reguarly. This looks like a great forum and I look forward to reading more! |
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04-09-2008, 09:20 AM
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| WW2 Veteran   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: London, England
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 | Hi Jammpa As I appear to be the only one online at the moment may I formally welcome you aboard  I have no doubt that you will enjoy your stay and I think it's fairly safe to assume that you are the first Welshman living 300 meters from the Russian border to join this forum ! Bore Da ! Ron
__________________ If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel circa 30 BCE  I was "Called-up" in Oct 1942Served as a Wireless-Op with the 49th LAA (78 Div) from Apr 1943 to Dec 1944 (North Africa,Sicily,Italy, Egypt). The Regiment was disbanded in Dec 1944 and I was retrained (in Italy) by the Royal Armoured Corps. Served as a Loader-Op with the 4th QOH from Mar 1945 to Jan 1946 (Italy, Austria, Germany) Finished up as Tech Cpl for "A" Sqdrn. I was "De-mobbed" in Apr 1947 Last edited by Ron Goldstein; 04-09-2008 at 09:21 AM. Reason: Typo |
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04-09-2008, 09:45 AM
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| the deadliest b#tch ever   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Russian Federation
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 Would u provide some fotos of that guards station 
__________________ I DRIVE HONDA. HONDA - POWER IN YOUR ARMS. Grandfather: front medic, caught by nazi in defence of Moscow 1941, placed into POW camp, ran away from camp, got a gangrene, lost left leg, survived war, now RIP. INTERACTIVE BOOK of EASTERN FRONT from 22 june 1941 to 9th may 1945 (5+ hours of show with videos, photos, audio notes from soviet veterans etc.): http://english.pobediteli.ru FEEL FREE TO CORRECT MY ENGLISH! ...BETTER DIE FOR SOMETHING THAN LIVE FOR NOTHING.    マキシマムザホルモン [Makishimamu Za Horumon] | |
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04-09-2008, 10:04 AM
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| I Like Tanks  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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 | Hi Jamppa, Welcome aboard! Cheers, Adam.
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04-09-2008, 10:36 AM
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| Legendary Member  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Neverland
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| Welcome to the forum Jamppa.
__________________ On weald of Kent I watched once more Again I heard that grumbling roar Of fighter planes; yet none were near And all around the sky was clear Borne on the wind a whisper came 'Though men grow old, they stay the same' And then I knew, unseen to eye The ageless Few were sweeping by |
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04-09-2008, 11:55 AM
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| Legendary Member  Join Date: May 2005 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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| Hi Jammpa, Welcome to the forum from Australia. You are a lucky man. Finland is the only country in Scandinavia where RAAF lads are not buried. (I collect photos of headstones of the 11,000+ who died during ww2) Cheers Geoff
__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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04-09-2008, 12:07 PM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Welcome Jamppa.
__________________  "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum |
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04-09-2008, 01:49 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2008
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| Thanks for the warm welcome! I do have a paticurly bad habit of not taking my camera with me but will make a point of carrying it more and will hopefully post some pics in the future. Most of the battlefields are on what is now Russian ground, the sites on this side of the border are mostly defensive lines. Apparently the strength of the lines such as the Salpa line was so strong that it actually discouraged Russia heading any further West as it would have been so costly. There is also a Messerschmitt a couple of hours from my place that has been restored that I need to get some pics of. |
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