Puhakka, a G.50 pilot with 42 areal victories.

Puhakka

Brewster B-239 of LeLv24 at Tiiksjärvi airbase in September 1942. This aircraft was shot down by Soviet fighter on August 31, 1943, near Koivisto, at coast of Gulf of Finland. The pilot sergeant Sulo Lehtiö was killed.

'Flying beer bottle'

Finnish soldiers in Viipuri (Vyborg) at the beginning of Continuation War 1941-44.

The first castle of Vyborg, and the city established) was founded during the so-called "Third Swedish Crusade" in 1293 by marshal Torkel Knutsson. 

The Hanseatic city lies in the boundary zone between the East Slavic/Russian and Finnish/Scandinavian worlds and has changed hands several times in histor.

Dominantlanguage remained German until mid 1800s, after which the Swedish began to gain ground.