List of Finns - Soldiers

Soldiers

  • Aksel Airo – general (1898 – 1985)
  • Adolf Ehrnrooth – general (1905 – 2004)
  • Axel Heinrichs – general (1890 – 1965)
  • Simo Häyhä – first lieutenant, sharpshooter 505 confirmed sniper kills (1905 – 2002)
  • Eino Ilmari Juutilainen – pilot, twice knight of Mannerheim cross
  • Jorma Karhunen – pilot, aviation writer
  • Jussi Kekkonen – major, younger brother of president Urho Kekkonen (1910 – 1962)
  • Ruben Lagus – major general (1896 – 1956)
  • Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim – marshal of Finland (1867 – 1951)
  • Vilho Petter Nenonen – general (1883 – 1960)
  • Karl Lennart Oesch – lieutenant general (1892 – 1978)
  • Mika Peltonen – Brigadier General (2005 –)
  • Jorma Sarvanto – fighter pilot, World War II ace
  • Ensio Siilasvuo – general (1922 – 2001)
  • Hjalmar Siilasvuo – general (1892 – 1947)
  • Georg Magnus Sprengtporten – general (1740 – 1819)
  • Torsten Stålhandske – commander of Hakkapelites (1594 – 1644)
  • Paavo Susitaival – lieutenant colonel (1896 – 1993)
  • Lauri Sutela – general
  • Paavo Talvela – general (1897 – 1973)
  • Lauri Törni (Alias Larry Throne) – captain (1919 – 1965)
  • Rudolf Walden – general (1878 – 1946)
  • Kurt Martti Wallenius – major general (1893 – 1984)
  • Hans Wind – pilot, twice knight of Mannerheim cross
  • Harald Öhquist – lieutenant general (1891 – 1971)
  • Hugo Österman – lieutenant general (1892 – 1975)

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Famous quotes containing the word soldiers:

    “... children do not take war seriously as war. War is soldiers and soldiers have not to be war but they have to be soldiers. Which is a nice thing.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “It was soldiers went marching over the rocks
    And still the birds came, came in watery flocks,
    Because it was spring and the birds had to come.
    No doubt that soldiers had to be marching
    And that drums had to be rolling, rolling, rolling.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “As soldiers we have few saving graces. Perhaps our willingness to die for what we believe in is all that matters.”
    —Leo V. Gordon, U.S. screenwriter, and Arthur Hiller. Col. Harker (Nigel Green)