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Title: THORNE - Story of a Soldier 6/6 View count: 1286 Rating: 5.0 (20 ratings) Description: Larry Alan Thorne (Lauri Törni) was born in Finland in 1919, entered the Finnish army in 1938 and fought in the 1939-40 war against the Soviet Union. He subsequently conducted guerrilla warfare against the Soviet forces after the Finnish regime allied itself with Nazi Germany and reentered the war. As Shultz tells it, "In September 1944, Finland surrendered to the Soviet Union. Thorne didn't. He joined the Germans, attended their school for guerrilla warfare, and then fought with their marines until the war ended. "The Soviets wanted to get their hands on Thorne and forced the Finnish government to arrest him as a wartime German collaborator. They planned to take him to Moscow to be tried for war crimes. Thorne had other plans. He escaped, made his way to the United States, and with the help of Wild Bill Donovan became a citizen. The wartime head of the OSS knew of Thorne's commando exploits..." Thorne joined the U.S. Army and his expertise in guerrilla warfare led him into the Special Forces Group, where he was commissioned a first lieutenant, eventually rising to the rank of captain and commanding a Special Forces team in Vietnam, before joining SOG. Source: http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/larry-thorne.htm Tags: larry, alan, thorne, lauri, törni, finland, finnish, army, winter, war, guerrilla, warfare, continuation, germany, german, marines, united, states, us, u.s., special, forces, group, vietnam, sog, Author: mineman65 |
