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fought in the SS
Lauri Allan torni, mais tarde conhecido como Larry Thorne, era um capito
do Exrcito finlands que liderou uma companhia de infantaria, em finlands
e Inverno Guerras continuao e se mudou para os Estados Unidos aps a
Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ele lutou sob trs bandeiras: finlands, alemo
(quando ele lutou contra os soviticos na Segunda Guerra Mundial) e
americano (onde era conhecido como Larry Thorne), quando ele atuou em
US Foras especiais do exrcito na Guerra do Vietn.
Este grupo das foras especiais o mais antigo do Exrcito tendo sido
estabelecido em junho de 1952, depois que o Exrcito estava convencido
aps a Segunda Guerra Mundial que, com base em experincias durante a
guerra de operaes bem-sucedidas atrs das linhas inimigas com
elementos do antigo Escritrio de Servios Estratgicos (OSS), seria
prudente manter essa capacidade de guerra no convencional. O grupo foi
formado especificamente para conduzir operaes partidrios por trs das
linhas do Exrcito Vermelho em caso de uma invaso sovitica da Europa.
Com este tipo de misso, logo ficou claro que dentro das fileiras de soldados
das foras especiais foram algumas pessoas bastante incomuns. Desde a
misso do Grupo era guerra no convencional por trs das linhas inimigas,
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Lauri Allan torni, mais tarde conhecido como Larry Thorne, era um capito
do Exrcito finlands que liderou uma companhia de infantaria, em finlands
e Inverno Guerras continuao, e se mudou para os Estados Unidos aps a
Segunda Guerra Mundial. Ele lutou sob trs bandeiras: finlands, alemo
(quando ele lutou contra os soviticos na Segunda Guerra Mundial) e
americano (onde era conhecido como Larry Thorne), quando ele atuou em
US Foras especiais do exrcito na Guerra do Vietn.
Escapando da Finlndia depois de seu perdo, ele foi para a Sucia, onde
ele se apaixonou por um finlands sueco. Ele esperava estabelecer uma
carreira antes que ele foi casado por isso ele se disfarou como um
marinheiro e chegou em um navio indo para a Venezuela. Chegando l, ele
ento pegou um navio indo para os Estados Unidos; quando ele ficou perto
de Mobile, Alabama, no Golfo do Mxico, ele pulou do navio e nadou at a
costa. Ele fez isso para Nova York, onde havia uma forte comunidade
finlandesa e foi bem sucedido em conseguir um emprego como carpinteiro.
Em 1953 foi-lhe concedida uma autorizao de residncia por meio de uma
lei do Congresso que foi patrocinado pelo "Wild Bill" Donovan, ex-chefe do
grupo OSS durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Em 1954 ele se juntou ao Exrcito dos EUA como uma privada sob as
disposies da Lei Lodge. E, como seria de esperar, ele logo acabou em os
EUA organizao das Foras Especiais. Indo para Fort Bragg, Carolina do
Norte, ele se tornou um instrutor na Escola de Guerra Especial, onde ele
ensinou sobrevivncia, esqui, montanhismo, e tticas de guerrilha. Ele
tambm aprendeu pra-quedismo e foi logo um especialista nesta rea.
Em 1962, como capito, ele levou sua equipe das foras especiais sobre a
montanha mais alta no Ir para recuperar os corpos de um americano avio
C-130 que tinha deixado de funcionar e tambm para recuperar material
classificado no avio. Enquanto outros tinham falhado antes, Thorne e seus
homens fizeram o que tinham a inteno de fazer.
Em 1963 ele foi designado para o Vietn, onde ele ganhou a medalha de
estrela de bronze para a valentia e cinco coraes roxos para feridas. Aqui a
maior parte do combate foi de postos isolados em topos de morros, onde
foram estabelecidos acampamentos das Foras Especiais. Em sua segunda
viagem de servio no Vietn em 1965, o helicptero ele estava andando em
caiu. Ele foi declarado desaparecido e, em seguida, morto em 1966, mesmo
que o corpo no tinha sido recuperado.
Ele era o nico americano POW / MIA para combater o comunismo sob trs
bandeiras: Finlndia, Alemanha e Estados Unidos. Hoje, na Finlndia ele
lembrado como um heri e em Fort Carson, Colorado, aqui nos Estados
Unidos, o principal edifcio sede da localizao atual das foras especiais
10o nomeado Thorne Hall. E assim a histria vai, no filme "Boinas Verdes",
o papel desempenhado por John Wayne, o capito Sven Kornie, baseou-se
em grande parte de Larry Thorne!
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Larry foi apenas um exemplo de Bill Lodge soldados que serviram nas
Foras Especiais seguinte Segunda Guerra Mundial. Outros incluiu um
sargento da Polnia, outro da Checoslovquia que era um veterano do
Legado
Mesmo antes de sua morte, o nome de Thorne era lendria das Foras
Especiais dos EUA. Seu memorial dos EUA o Larry Thorne Edifcio Sede,
10o SFG (A), Fort Carson, Colorado. 10 Grupo honra-o anualmente,
apresentando o Prmio Thorne Larry ao bestOperational DestacamentoAlpha no comando. A Associao das foras especiais Captulo 33 em
Cleveland, Tennessee nomeado aps ele.
Em 2010 ele foi nomeado como o primeiro membro honorrio dos Estados
Unidos Exrcito Foras Especiais Regimento. No livro Os Boinas Verdes por
lauri5
O grupo de power metal sueca Sabaton lanou uma msica em seus 2.014
lbuns heris intitulados "Soldier of 3 Exrcitos", em referncia
participao da torni em trs foras militares diferentes.
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Lauri Allan Trni, later known as Larry Thorne, was a Finnish Army captain
who led an infantry company in the Finnish Winter and Continuation Wars
and moved to the United States after World War II. He fought under three
flags: Finnish, German (when he fought the Soviets in World War II), and
American (where he was known as Larry Thorne) when he served in U.S.
Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War.
This Special Forces Group is the oldest in the Army having been established
in June, 1952, after the Army was convinced following World War II that,
based upon experiences during that war of successful operations behind
enemy lines with elements of the old Office of Strategic Services (OSS), it
would be prudent to retain that capability of unconventional warfare. The
Group was specifically formed to conduct partisan operations behind the
Red Army lines in the event of a Soviet invasion of Europe.
With this type of mission, it soon became apparent that within the ranks of
Special Forces Soldiers were some rather unusual people. Since the mission
of the Group was unconventional warfare behind enemy lines, one of the
main considerations for staffing the units that would be deployed was the
ability of the men to blend into the local citizenry. Obviously a man who
spoke fluent Hungarian would be a tremendous asset for a group going
behind enemy lines in Hungary. (In addition it would probably give him a
much better chance to stay alive.) The same would apply for Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Russia, and other eastern European countries targeted for
US operations. Likewise, people who were experts in the culture, habits, and
appearance of the natives would increase the probability of successful
operations behind the lines.
Added to these needed characteristics was the ability for a man to operate
in the unusual environment of unconventional operations. More than likely,
the insertion of the Soldiers behind the enemy lines would be done by
parachute and then their only contact with other Americans would be by
radio; their war would be fought, for however long it took, with the native
forces behind the enemy lines. Former OSS operators, Ranger, and Airborne
Soldiers from the American Army gravitated to this unit. Another special
group of men also were there; the Lodge Bill troops. These were
immigrants from politically persecuted countries who could become US
citizens by serving in the US Army.
One of the most illustrious Soldiers from this category was a fellow officer by
the name of Larry Thorne.
Larry was a Finn who entered the Finnish Army in 1938 at the age of 19. War
broke out between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939 and for the next six
years he fought the Russian Army, first as an officer in the Finnish Army;
then as an officer in the German SS after Finland surrendered to the Soviets
in 1944. While in the Finnish Army he became famous in the period of 19411944 when a unit was created under him to penetrate and fight deep behind
enemy lines. His unit became so good and so famous the Russians put an
unheard of $650,000 bounty on his head. Leading his unit, he received the
highest Finnish medal, their Medal of Honor, for his activities behind enemy
lines.
When the Finns and the Russians signed their peace treaty, Thorne was
dissatisfied with the terms so he went to Germany where he joined the
German SS to continue his fight against the Russians. In the last stages of
the war he surrendered to the British and eventually returned to Finland
after escaping a British POW camp. When he returned, he was then arrested
by the Finns, even though he had received their Medal of Honor, and was
sentenced to 6 years in prison for treason. He was then pardoned by the
Finnish president in December of 1948.
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Lauri Allan Trni, later known as Larry Thorne, was a Finnish Army captain
who led an infantry company in the Finnish Winter and Continuation Wars,
and moved to the United States after World War II. He fought under three
flags: Finnish, German (when he fought the Soviets in World War II), and
American (where he was known as Larry Thorne) when he served in U.S.
Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War.
Escaping from Finland after his pardon, he went to Sweden where he fell in
love with a Swedish Finn. He hoped to establish a career before he was
married so he disguised himself as a seaman and got on a ship headed for
Venezuela. Arriving there, he then got on a ship headed for the United
States; when it got near Mobile, Alabama, in the Gulf of Mexico, he jumped
off the ship and swam to shore. He made it to New York where there was a
strong Finnish community and was successful in getting a job as a carpenter.
In 1953 he was granted a permit of residency through an Act of Congress
that was sponsored by Wild Bill Donovan, the former head of the OSS
group during WWII.
In 1962, as a Captain, he led his Special Forces team onto the highest
mountain in Iran to recover the bodies from an American C-130 airplane that
had crashed and also to recover classified material on the plane. While
others had failed before, Thorne and his men did what they had set out to
do.
In 1963 he was assigned to Vietnam where he earned the Bronze Star medal
for valor and five Purple Hearts for wounds. Here most of his combat was
from isolated outposts on tops of hills where Special Forces camps were
established. On his second tour of duty in Vietnam in 1965, the helicopter he
was riding in crashed. He was declared missing and then dead in 1966 even
though the body had not been recovered.
In 1999 a recovery team made it to the site of the helicopter crash and
recovered the bodies of Major Thorne and the other passengers. In 2003 he
was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
He was the only American POW/MIA to fight communism under three flags:
Finland, Germany, and America. Today in Finland he is remembered as a
hero and at Fort Carson, Colorado, here in the States, the main
headquarters building of the current location of the 10th Special Forces is
named Thorne Hall. And so the story goes, in the movie Green Berets, the
part played by John Wayne, Captain Sven Kornie, was based in large part on
Larry Thorne!
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Larry was just one example of Lodge Bill Soldiers who served in Special
Forces following WWII. Others included a Sergeant from Poland, another
from Czechoslovak who was a veteran of the Maquis and the French Foreign
Legion, Frenchy Szarck who was a Pole and a veteran of four Armies,
another who served in the Romanian and German armies, and the list goes
on. Clearly the expertise these men brought to our Army helped establish
the Special Forces we know today.
And my own personal observation, They were great Soldiers who loved to
soldier!
Jerry Hogan is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel who lives in Heath, TX.
To have the story of your friend or relative told in this column, please
contact Jerry at jerryhogan@sbcglobal.net or 214-394-4033
Legacy
In the 1990s, Trnis name became better known as a war hero, with
numerous books being written about him. He was named 52nd in the Suuret
Suomalaiset listing of famous Finns; in the 2006 Suomen Sotilas (Finnish
Soldier) magazine listing, he was elected most courageous of the
Mannerheim Cross recipients.
Even before his death, Thornes name was legendary in U.S. Special Forces.
His U.S. memorial is the Larry Thorne Headquarters Building, 10th SFG(A),
Fort Carson, Colorado. 10th Group honors him yearly by presenting the Larry
Thorne Award to the bestOperational Detachment-Alpha in the command.
In 2010 he was named as the first Honorary Member of the United States
Army Special Forces Regiment. In the book The Green Berets by Robin
Moore, the Sven Kornie (or Captain Steve Kornie) main character in the
first chapter was based on Thorne.
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In their 2013 book Tuntematon Lauri Trni [Unknown Lauri Trni], authors
Juha Pohjonen and Oula Silvennoinen argue that Trnis conviction for
treason was justified because the SS training he received at the end of
World War II was provided to help achieve a National Socialist coup in
Finland. This view is widely discredited, including by Trni Heritage Guild
members Markku Moberg and Pasi Niittymki, who acknowledge Trni faced
pressure from war and alcohol, but did not support Germany, and Finnish
historian Jussi Niinistwho argues that Trnis training was motivated instead
by patriotism unlike the book authors who Niinist contended stirred up
hatred to promote sales of their book while disregarding the fact that in
Finland there was a genuine fear that Russia would occupy Finland.
The Swedish power metal group Sabaton released a song on their 2014
album Heroes titled Soldier of 3 Armies in reference to Trnis participation
in three different military forces.
Fonte: http://www.warhistoryonline.com/war-articles/the-us-special-forcesmajor-who-fought-in-the-ss.html