BA-3

Norwegian volunteers in Northern Finland, 1940

Norwegian volunteers

Large numbers of light, fast BT-tanks (BT5, BT7) were captured during Winter war, And in the Continuation War more were captured from the soviets. The type was not accepted for full operational service. In general, units captured in summer/autumn 1941 were not used after spring 1942. In summer 1942 there was 53 repairable or undamaged BT7s, and plans were made to rebuilt many them as BT42s and BT43s. In summer of 1944 no working BT-tanks remained. In the whole, the operational career of the BT type in Finnish colors was very short, lasting only a year (most used only for 6 months or so).