Milsurp After Hours

Thanks again to Mosu.

#1 Soumi 9mm SMG in Bunker. Notice his pal w/ a "potato masher" grenade ready to go. Looks like German issue/Military aid. So maybe the Continuation War. You wonder if the Reds are on top of the roof already. These guys look ready to tangle

#2 Soumi and perhaps a KP44 (copy of PPS43).These Joes don't look as on edge as the bunker group.

The guys in the bunker shot appear to be wearing the German type of steel helmet too. Great pics

Joe

Thanks for shearing these pictures TaosB.

The #1 has been taken during the great Sovjet summer offensive in summer 1944 in Karelian Isthmus. The farthest back man keeps a Maxim model MG in his hands. Notice the water pipe rolled around the gun. The two men have, as TaosB mentioned, perunanuija to say ’potato mashers’ in their hands. It appears to me that the grenade is hanging on the nearest man’s belt but it is not sure because it is partially behind the drum magazine. If it is hanging on and not pushed behind the belt, it should be Finnish varsikäsikranaatti m/32 (handle hand grenade model/32) which had a belt hook. Otherwise it may be German M24 which was known here as m/39 or Finnish m/41 which did not have this m/32’s belt hook because it had in some cases got caught in gear which resulted in disaster. I guess m/41.

In #2 the second from left is, and I bet TaosB knows it, is Lauri Törni aka Larry A. Thorne in 1944. The SMG is perhaps KP44. Lahti (co-designer to Lahti-Saloranta LMG) improved a little PPS43 in Jyväskylä, Tikkakoski factories and that became 9 mm KP44.

joseyclosey:

There were a variety of different kind of helmets in IIWW Finland: Swedish, Czech, German IWW, German and German model made in Hungary ones. This at least. German models beeing most common.

By the way did you know that Lahti was allowed to gulp down shots during working hours and he had a special permission for it given by Mannerheim.

We have a New Year since two hours :-)

mosu

Happy new year Mosu all the best look forward to your posts in the new year.

Intresting stuff.

Suomi Model 31 in action...

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here's a closeup with a cousin from out of town -

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Nice pictures.

Here is an interesting article:

http://guns.connect.fi/gow/suomi1.html

mosu

Larry Thorne certainly had an interesting and varied military career! I just read this.....

http://www.pownetwork.org/bios/t/t375.htm

Joe

That is an interesting story Joe. Glad you posted the link. Throne was really some kind of soldier judging from that link.

Mosu, I never knew about using the thumb for control before.

Brass

After what I found It was an experience of war. You have nice cun there test it that way too.. I wishe I would have similar one.

Best Regards

Mosu