A Finnish sniper is being visited by his superior officer in his outpost in the mountains.

Sniper and his officer

Men of 1st platoon, 24th Gun Company (5.Div), credited with destroying 26 enemy tanks using their guns and short range anti-tank weapons. 3 August 1944.

Corporal Toivo Ilomäki (sitting on the gun, holding it's optical sight) was later awarded the Mannerheim Cross, Finland's highest military honor, for destroying 21 of those 26 tanks, as the gunner of this particular Pak 40, in June 1944. Nowadays the gun is on display in Parola Armoured Vehicle Museum.

Anti-tank platoon

A Finnish sergeant firing a captured PTRD-41 Soviet anti-tank gun on the eve of the armistice between the Soviet Union and Finland; September 1944.
 
