Finnish tanks advance towards Petrozavodsk, the capital of East Karelia. Autumn 1941.

Tanks advancing

Finnish T-26. This particular individual is very likely one of the ones made from the soviet flamethrower tanks (OT-26,OT-130,OT-133) that were captured in the Winter War. Finns saw the flamethrower tanks unpractical, dodgy and great waste of gasoline, so the flamethrower turrets were replaced with gun turrets and they were then later put into action.

T-26

The commander and the fighters. General Steiner shaking hands with Finnish volunteers in June 1943. To his right is the battalion commander, Colonel Hans Collani. He was killed in action in Estonia in 1944. Collani is buried in a German military cemetary in Tallinn, Estonia, a Baltic nation just south of Finland.