Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The Right Stuff

It begins at home
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Finland Defense Corp -RK 62 standard issue
“ The Soviet forces had four times as many soldiers as the Finns, 30 times as many aircraft and 218 times as many tanks.[4] However, the Red Army had recently been subjected to a drastic purge in 1937 that crippled it, reducing its morale and efficiency shortly before the outbreak of hostilities.[11] With up to 50% of army officers executed, including the vast majority of those of the highest rank, the Red Army in 1939 had many inexperienced senior officers.[12] Due to a combination of these factors, and an extremely high commitment and morale in the Finnish forces, the Finns were able to resist the invasion of their country with great success and for far longer than the Soviets had expected. - Wiki
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3/31/2009 12:37:00 PM 9 Comments

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Anonymous said...

Off topic, but I just want to say hello to everyone here. Though I've been lurking (and loving it) for several years, I posted my first comment yesterday. Got a warm reception and was made to feel right at home. Thanks to all the Barn Army folks for letting me know I'm not alone out here in the wilderness. I'll be sticking around if you'll have me.

--Anonymous2112

3/31/09, 1:21 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

Have a beer ... .

3/31/09, 1:53 PM
Josh Fahrni-Barn Army Dog Catcher said...

Yep, great to see new commenters reading Rodgers great blog. I'm one of the same, although not to quite the severe extent. I go a week or two without commenting, then get the urge and comment, make an ass out of myself, and repeat. :-p.

Rodger and Denny's blogs are the only ones I read. Smart smart guys.

3/31/09, 2:21 PM
rockville said...

The article briefly mentions Simo Häyhä, but he deserves special mention.

3/31/09, 2:38 PM
Anonymous said...

At The Old Courthouse Museum in Vicksburg, Mississippi, there is a wrought iron staircase (imported) that pre-dates the Civil War. The former curator (G. Cotton), told me that the reason he tagged the staircase as imported is that he wanted visitors to realize that the same Confederacy that could not even manufacture it's own staircases was able to fight a conventional war against the Union Army for four years. - Vice Sgt Boone

3/31/09, 3:23 PM
Grumpyunk said...

The best book I've read on the Russo Finnish war is - A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 By William Trotter.
Extremely detailed.

There's also a great video on the war called - Fire and Ice.
I think it was a PBS or History Channel production.

3/31/09, 5:49 PM
Murphy(AZ) said...

Real King Roger:

Long ago and far away, I signed on as a Medic in the AF. Back then we still boiled our own bandages and used leeches on a regular basis, but antibiotics and sterile technigues were coming into vogue.

It's been some years now, but I still remember which side of the Band-aid goes on the wound, and how most complaints can be remedied with 500,000 units of PenVK, deep IM.

If the Barn Army needs a cranky Old F-rt as Surgeon Admiral, then I'm your man.

Or... I could serve part-time as an old country medic if I can have Sundays and Thursdays off.

4/1/09, 2:22 PM
JMcD said...

One of the videos on U tube has a large force of Russians attacking a small force of Finns and probably would have done severe damage but when the Finns retreated they left behind their kitchen cookers loaded with sausages and the starving Russians attacked the food allowing the Finns to escape to fight another day.

4/1/09, 2:34 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...

Murphy, you're in. Send a pic - larger the better, and when we mobilize you'll be there.

4/1/09, 10:36 PM

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