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Soldiers of the Polish Legion in Finland. Polish Legion in Finland (Polish: Legion Polski w Finlandii, Finnish: Puolan Legioona Suomessa, Swedish: Polska legionen i Finland, Russian: Польский Легион в Финляндии) was a military unit made up of ethnic Poles who had been soldiers of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I and stationed in the Grand Duchy of Finland.
Jewish Legion, in the British Army at Gallipoli and Palestine; Polish Legion in Finland, fighting for the Finns against the Russians; Polish Legions in World War I, part of the Austro-Hungarian Army; Puławy Legion, a Polish formation that was part of the Imperial Russian Army; Legion of Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, a corps of the Austro-Hungarian Army
Finnish soldiers raise the flag at the three-country cairn between Norway, Sweden, and Finland on 27 April 1945, which marked the end of World War II in Finland.. Finland participated in the Second World War initially in a defensive war against the Soviet Union, followed by another, this time offensive, war against the Soviet Union acting in concert with Nazi Germany and then finally fighting ...
Sweden, which had declared itself to be a non-belligerent rather than a neutral country (unlike for the rest of World War II wherein Sweden tried to uphold neutrality), contributed military supplies, cash, credits, humanitarian aid and some 8,700 Swedish volunteers prepared to fight for Finland. The Swedish Army, which had been downsizing its ...
Foreign volunteer battalion in the Wehrmacht.Soldiers of the Free Arabian Legion in Greece, September 1943. Spanish volunteer forces of the Blue Division entrain at San Sebastián, 1942 The Ukrainian Liberation Army's oath to Adolf Hitler Ingrian Wehrmacht volunteers of the 664th Eastern Battalion, 1943
1st Legions Infantry Division of Józef Piłsudski (stationed in Wilno) - Brig. Gen. Wincenty Kowalski; 2nd Legions Infantry Division (stationed in Kielce) - Col. Edward Dojan-Surówka, after September 8, 1939 col. Antoni Staich
Danube Legion; Legion of the Vistula; Polish Legion in Portugal, created in 1828 during Liberal Wars; Polish Legion in Hungary, created in 1848 during Hungarian Revolution of 1848; Mickiewicz's Legion, formed by Adam Mickiewicz in Rome in 1848; Polish Legion in Turkey, formed under Józef Jagmin in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878)
Includes military units and formations of Finland in which served during the Winter War and the Continuation War. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.