Operation Arctic Fox
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Operation Arctic Fox was the codename given to a World War II campaign launched in July 1941 by German and Finnish forces from Lapland against Soviet Northern Front defenses at Salla, Murmansk Oblast.
A column from Panzerabteilung 40 during the advance on the Murmansk railway, 1941.
Falkenhorst meets with Siilasvuo during planning.
Advance of XXXVI Corps July – September
Finnish soldiers east of Kestenga in the arctic forest.
Lapland War
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During World War II, the Lapland War saw fighting between Finland and Nazi Germany – effectively from September to November 1944 – in Finland's northernmost region, Lapland. Though the Finns and the G
A sign which the Germans left in Muonio, Lapland, written on it: 'As thanks for not demonstrating brotherhood in arms!'
A view in 2007 to the south-east from Sturmbock-Stellung, a fortified German position in Finland 100 km (62 mi) from Norway
Operations Birke and Nordlicht, the German withdrawal from Finland from 6 September 1944 to 30 January 1945
Gebirgsjäger of the XVIII Mountain Corps attacking behind Panzer cover in 1942 when Finland and Germany were still at war with the USSR together