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Re: The official AHF Winter & Continuation War quiz thread

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Post by sandels » 11 Apr 2012, 13:49

Ok, my first question ever, this is probabaly too easy but here it goes...

Name the person on the picture. (Pre-war picture, he was a colonel then)
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Post by Juha Tompuri » 12 Apr 2012, 21:23

Jarl Frithiof Lundqvist, commander of the Finnish AF during the Wars.

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Post by sandels » 13 Apr 2012, 10:29

And for a while chief of defence of Finnish Defence Forces (post-war).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarl_Lundqvist

Juha's answer is correct (they always are :) ) so over to you.

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Post by Juha Tompuri » 13 Apr 2012, 17:13

Thanks,

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Photo from Spring 1940, name the Ltn second from right:
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Post by Juha Tompuri » 16 Apr 2012, 11:48

He was a Winter War volunteer, who later WWII served at RAF.

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Post by Juha Tompuri » 18 Apr 2012, 21:11

later WWII served at RAF.
And flew Typhoons.

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Post by CanKiwi2 » 18 Apr 2012, 22:26

Juha Tompuri wrote:
later WWII served at RAF.
And flew Typhoons.

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Ok, I didn't match the faces up but it has to be Richard Welford Aitken-Quack

After the Spanish Civil War, Atitken-Quack volunteered to fly for Finland in the Winter War, where he was assigned to T-LentoR 2. After returning from Finland, Richard Aitken-Quack (re)enlisted in the ranks of the RAF as an AC2 in May 1942 but soon became a Sergeant Pilot (F/Sgt. Richard Welsford Aitken-Quack, 1805819) and was posted to No. 609 Squadron on 6th April 1943, as a Sgt, as per the Squadron ORB. The Squadron was flying Typhoons, and, again from the Squadron ORB of 19 November, 1943: “F/Sgt Aitken-Quack today interviewed pending posting to Training Command. He becomes one of 3 (out of about 50) selected as Fighter Controller (Invasion). This automatically implies a commission, previously rejected because he once overstayed leave before the war.”

Aitken-Quack was shot down on 1 December 1943 near Roubaix (south of Valenciennes, northern France) in France whilst flying from Lympne in a Hawker Typhoon 1b (JP924 PR-S). The concluding paragraph of the 609 Squadron ORB entry for 1st December 1943 states: “F/Sgt Aitken-Quack, who was on probably his last operational sortie before leaving the squadron, was one of its more picturesque characters. A veteran of the Spanish Civil War, in which he flew Boeing fighters V. general Francos forces (and possibly did battle against P/O Comte de Grunne, another 609 pilot who was in that war) he had also been in Finland during the Russo-Finnish War. He could thus speak several languages fluently, and it is hoped that these and his general buccaneering experience may get him back to this country before very long.”


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Pilots of 609 "West Riding of Yorkshire" Squadron, photographed at Manston ( 22 July 1943 ). Standing, from Left to Right: Sgt Georges Watelet (Belgian), Sgt B.L.J. Foley (Australian), Sgt R.O. Ellis (British), F/O J.R. "Johnny" Baldwin (British), F/O A.S. Ross (American), F/O F.J. Reahill (British), P/O Georges "Poupa" Jaspis (Belgian), F/Sgt H.W. McMann (Canadian),
Sgt R.W. Aitken-Quack (British), Sgt J.G. McLaughlin (Australia), Sgt F.J. Bryan (Canadian).

Seated, from Left to Right: F/O W.F. Watts (British), F/Sgt G.K.E. Martin (Australian), F/O J. Niblett (British), F/O E.R.A. Roberts (British), F/Lt L.E. Smith (British), S/Ldr A. Ingle (British),
F/Lt E. Haabjørn (Norwegian), F/Sgt Andrea " le Men " Blanco (Belgian), F/O I.J. Davies (British), W/O R.E. Bavington (Australian), F/O Joseph Renier (Belgian), Sgt Joseph Zegers (Belgian).

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Richard Welsford Aitken-Quack – a British Pilot with a very colorful biography. He fought as a volunteer Pilot for the Republicans in Spain from the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. He signed a contract with the government to fly for a monthly salary of 200 pound). Of his military operations, very little is known. He himself said that he flew a number of flights in the Boeing P-26.
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Post by Juha Tompuri » 18 Apr 2012, 22:38

Richard Welford Aitken-Quack he is.
Well done Nigel :)

My photo source being Talvisodan Kanarianlinnut, the finnish language translation of the British Volunteers in Finland 1940-41 The Canaries by Justin Brooke.

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Post by CanKiwi2 » 20 Apr 2012, 15:25

Hmmm, that's interesting. Just got the English-language version thru an Inter-Library Loan and the copy of the book doesn't have that particular photo. Wonder what other differences there are.

Anyhow, on to my question.

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She was not Finnish, but she played a part in the WInter War. Who is the woman on the right (marked with the red X)?
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Post by Juha Tompuri » 23 Apr 2012, 07:33

Alexandra Kollontai?

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Post by CanKiwi2 » 23 Apr 2012, 13:03

Juha Tompuri wrote:Alexandra Kollontai?

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Yes indeed, you got her :D . The photo caption reads: Swedish Communists in Petrograd, New Year 1918/1919. Carl Lindhagen, Helene Lurie, unknown sailor, Zeth Höglund, Alexandra Kollontai, unknown solider.

Kollontai was born in 1872 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Her father was a powerful general and political administrator in Tsar Alexander II’s regime. She married and became involved in radical politics and left her family. After her involvement in the 1905 Revolution she went into exile, not returning to Russia until the March 1917 Revolution. She served as the People’s Commissar for Social Welfare in the early Bolshevik regime under Lenin and would fill important diplomatic posts under Stalin until her death in 1952. She was also a novelist and an early advocate of free love. In August, 1896, Kollontai left Russia and became a student of labour history at the University of Zurich. She read widely and was greatly impressed by the writings of George Plekhanov, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Kautsky. Kollontai also visited London where she met the labour historians, Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb. However, she was now a committed Marxist and she rejected their Fabian reformist views.

On her return to Russia she began to take a keen interest in the Finnish struggle for independence (Kollontai's mother was from Finland). She helped workers in Finland organize themselves into trade unions and wrote articles about the struggle between the Finnish people and the Russian autocracy. Her book, The State of the Working Class in Finland was published in 1903. In the first few months of the First World War Kollantai was arrested in Germany and deported to Sweden. Her anti-war writings upset the Swedish government and she was forced to move to Norway. In 1915 she was invited by the American Socialist Party to give a lecture tour of the United States. In 1915 Kollantai joined the Bolsheviks and returned to Russia to take part in the October Revolution. Although she did not enjoy a good relationship with Vladimir Lenin, he appointed her as Commissar for Social Welfare. Kollantai, Inessa Armand, Sophia Smidovich and Nadezhda Krupskaya were the only women to play a prominent role in the male-dominated Bolshevik administration. Kollantai remain a staunch feminist and with Inessa Armand and Sophia Smidovich helped form the Central Commission for Agitation and Propaganda Among Working Women (Zhenotdel).

In government Kollantai became increasing critical of the Communist Party and joined with her friend, Alexander Shlyapnikov (Commissar for Labour) to form a faction that became known as the Workers' Opposition. In 1921 Kollantai published a pamphlet The Workers' Opposition, where she called for members of the party to be allowed to discuss policy issues and for more political freedom for trade unionists. She also advocated that before the government attempts to "rid Soviet institutions of the bureaucracy that lurks within them, the Party must first rid itself of its own bureaucracy."
This attack on the Bolsheviks meant the end of Kollantai's political career in Russia. At the Tenth Party Congress in 1922, Vladimir Lenin proposed a resolution that would ban all factions within the party. He argued that factions within the party were "harmful" and encouraged rebellions such as the Kronstadt Rising. The Party Congress agreed with Lenin and the Workers' Opposition was dissolved.

When Joseph Stalin gained power he sent Kollantai abroad as a diplomat. Kollontai lacked political influence and was appointed by the Party to various diplomatic positions from the early 1920s, keeping her from playing a leading role in the politics of women's policy in the USSR. In 1923-1927, she was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Norway, becoming the world's first female ambassador in modern times.mShe later served as Ambassador to Mexico (1926-27) and Sweden (1930-1945). When she was in Stockholm, the winter war between Russia and Finland broke out; it is largely due to her influence that Sweden remained neutral. After the war, she received Molotov's praises.

Kollantai retired in 1945 and lived in Moscow until her death on 9th March, 1952. She was the only major critic of the Soviet government that Joseph Stalin did not have executed.
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Post by Juha Tompuri » 24 Apr 2012, 07:26

Thanks Nigel,

A quick one, how about this person:
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Juha Tompuri wrote: this person
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Post by Juha Tompuri » 28 Apr 2012, 21:40

...he started the Continuation War as Corporal (alikersantti) and 19 Oct-44 he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant

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