Finnish Wartime Archive

[Nalsheen]

Found this and thought some of you might be interested,

http://sa-kuva.fi/

The Finnish Defence Forces wartime archive published online.

 

[rik_uk3]

Fantastic site, many thanks for the link

 

[Martti]

Search using words puhde* and tuoh* for hundreds of photographs of amazing handicrafts made using a puukko and an axe. See e.g. photo 116681:

 

[Martti]

Some of my favourite bushcrafting interiors and furnitures made by the soldiers with only a few tools:

1) Number 104311.

2) Number 104346.

3) Number 138358.

4) Number 90036.

 

[Stringmaker]

Fantastic site, many thanks for the link

+1

 

[Martti]

Ye olde equipment:

5) Number 123487. Saw blades.

6) Number 123492. Old and new axes.

7) Number 144199. Wooden bowls and cups.

 

[Martti]

The twenty-minute portable toilet, another amazing innovation I have come across while browsing through the archive. SA-Kuva numbers 95285 through 95294.

 

[Martti]

The best of the best in handicraft competition held in Eastern Karelia in 1942:

1) The best "korsu" or dugout build out of logs. SA 110943.

2) 4th price in woodworking, a burl cup. SA 90177.

3) 3rd (shared?) price in woodworking. SA 90178.

4) 1st and 2nd prices in woodworking. SA 90176.

 

[ozzy1977]

Some amazing thing there, many thanks

 

[Martti]

Farming:

Cucumbers.

Mapacho.

Tomatoes.

 

[sandbender]

Great stuff, thanks for the link.

 

[Martti]

Making pine tar.

 

[Dave]

Very interesting site, thanks for the link. Clever men those Finns!

 

[Martti]

There are furs and then there are furs. The woman in auxiliary service is wearing a combination of wool overcoat, shearling hat and wolfskin coat in Lapland on 6 February 1940. The lowest temperatures measured during the Winter War were well below -40C.

 

[Martti]

Another fur photographed in 1940.

 

[Martti]

Patrol crossing a river.

Hiking through the wilderness.

Camp site.

 

[Martti]

Some winter scenes:

 

[rik_uk3]

bump for this thread.

 

[Klenchblaize]

And a very well deserved one at that:

Thanks

K

 

[CLEM]

Very interesting that 👍