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Wikipedia: Finnish Army (1939)
Finnish Army (1939)
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The Finnish Army at the beginning of the Winter War in 1939.

Order of Battle

Finnish Army of the Isthmus under Lieutenant General Hugo Viktor Österman.

  • II Corps under Lieutenant General Harald Öhquist
    • 4th Division
    • 5th Division
    • 11th Division
    • Cavalry Brigade

  • III Corps under Major General Axel Heinrichs.
    • 8th Division
    • 10th Division

  • Reserve
    • 1st Division

Independent formations

IV Corps (in the Ladoga Karelia) under Major General J. Hägglund.

  • 12th Division
  • 13th Division

North Finland Group under Major General Wiljo Einar Tuompo.

Reserves of C-in-C

  • 6th Division (Southern Finland)
  • 9th Division (Northern Finland)
  • Replacement Brigade (KT-Pr)

Three more "replacement divisions" were formed from the available reservists. These became the 21st, 22nd and 23rd Divisionss on Decemeber 19th.

  

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Modified by Geona