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Had a long day, today. Not this one, this is from before my Iceland trip. I sometimes whomp these up for my massletters. But now them as is getting em, have gotten em, so it shouldn't be cheating anyone to post this here.
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Ah, yes. The Winter War: Finland (who was on the side of the Axis because the Soviet Union was one of the allies) handed the USSR its ass on a plate. Perhaps it had something to do with Stalin's purges, and the fact that he sent fellow Georgians to command those armies--Georgians who were totally unprepared that Finland shares Russia's infamous winter.
As a matter o' fact, I've heard of the winter war.
We sent them Brewster Buffalo fighter planes, partly out of sympathy and pertly to dump the aircraft on someone else. The Buffalo was considered a rotten aircraft, mostly because the engine would overheat at the drop of a hat. However, taken out of the hot Pacific theater and sent above the Arctic Circle, they did just fine.
We sent them Brewster Buffalo fighter planes, partly out of sympathy and pertly to dump the aircraft on someone else. The Buffalo was considered a rotten aircraft, mostly because the engine would overheat at the drop of a hat. However, taken out of the hot Pacific theater and sent above the Arctic Circle, they did just fine.
Well, as one of the commenters above notes, there's the 1939-1940 Winter War, and the 1941-1944 Continuation War.
Frankly, there wasn't a whole lot other countries could do to help Finland, outside of money (and there was a fair amount of that). You had three choices to get materiel to Finland: Petsamo (frozen, I think, that time of year) on the Arctic Ocean, where the Russians were operating, the Baltic (where the Germans had their non-aggression pact with Russia), and overland via Norway and/or Sweden -- Norway would be problematic, though Sweden did give Finland some limited support. Considering the Winter War lasted roughly six months, and this was shortly before the era when it was practical to ship equipment by airplane instead of ship, it's not particularly likely Finland would have gotten much, even if planners had gotten off the dime quickly (and the British and French were struggling to meet their own demands, and distracted by things like the Graf Spee). Small amounts of materiel were trickling into Finland in the closing weeks of the war, but of course it was not nearly enough.
Frankly, there wasn't a whole lot other countries could do to help Finland, outside of money (and there was a fair amount of that). You had three choices to get materiel to Finland: Petsamo (frozen, I think, that time of year) on the Arctic Ocean, where the Russians were operating, the Baltic (where the Germans had their non-aggression pact with Russia), and overland via Norway and/or Sweden -- Norway would be problematic, though Sweden did give Finland some limited support. Considering the Winter War lasted roughly six months, and this was shortly before the era when it was practical to ship equipment by airplane instead of ship, it's not particularly likely Finland would have gotten much, even if planners had gotten off the dime quickly (and the British and French were struggling to meet their own demands, and distracted by things like the Graf Spee). Small amounts of materiel were trickling into Finland in the closing weeks of the war, but of course it was not nearly enough.
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