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I'd really have to vote for this: http://i609.photobucket.com/albums/tt171/iantti/partio_10_1.jpg -Re-enactment group: Etulinja -Photographer: I don't know who took the pic... I was sick in bed during this event : ( -Photo was taken Southern Finland And why I love it? C'mon! The scenery, outfit, per...

The best book about him is "Simo Häyhä - Valkoinen kuolema" ( Simo Häyhä - White Death in english, I don't know if that book has ever translated in english). Book is very authentic and based on interviews of him. He was quite modest person itself so he wasn't able to tell exactly how many ...

Bah, just my luck, it releases just as I go away to study abroad in Finland for 4 months :( Welcome to Finland (just wait the long and dark winter! ;))! I hope we'll see you in Gaissmair Winter Training this year? About the RO2: -It seems quite buggy right now. For me, the textures are quite weird ...

Peter! What the...! You have destroyed FIVE original pieces of our history!

Next time we meet, I'll give you a handling with "soap'n'sock"

Direct link: http://www.varusteleka.fi/product/unifo ... _3AU0RMEQB

Everyone now go crazy and shop like screaming teenage girls! Awesome stuff.

Tin and bronze are also correct.

Fishing was very common hobby during the wartime. Though there weren't herrings in Karelia's fresh waters. The most common fish in Finnish lakes is European perch (ahven, in Finnish).

More about of (weird) Finnish tradition cuisine can be found from Wikipedia

Along with pea soup and different meat & potato soups there were other common foods like:
-porridge (oat/rye/barley)
-different juice sauces
-kissel
-gruel
-different macaroni foods
-fish foods
etc..

"Sautéed reindeer" (Poronkäristys) is only for Northern Finland troops.

Here in Finland the pea soup also includes smoked pork. Finnish Defence Forces still serves pea soup & pancakes every Thursday to the conscripts. Though during the war time Thursdays were more common during the week (pea soup is cheap and easy-to-cook meal) :lol: . The tradition of eating pea so...

For the main infantry, Finnish supply wasn't based on rations like in US and British (?) army. Supply groups kept men satisfied with their field kitchens. Rations were mostly for the patrolmen and LRRP's (in Finnish Kaukopartio ). These rations were "special meals" and included things such...

Mostly brass. There were also bakelite buttons in ~1942-1945. Plastic buttons are postwar (around 1960 ->)

Franz said it all

Both. Breeches and straight.

Their websites are very poor, the best way to know their stuff is either visit in Säkyläs' store / email / call to them directly.

Milform makes M36 jacket with 270e price... Quality is awesome but price isn't. Trousers are 70 euros.