Finnish Törni Detachment Jäger Patch (Larry Thorne)

Detachment Torni was formed by then-Captain Lauri Alan Törni as an informal light infantry unit during the Continuation War in 1943. They served with extreme efficiency giving the Soviet Red Army a black eye at every turn, and earned Captain Törni the Finnish Mannerheim Cross for extreme combat gallantry. He saw later service with Nazi Germany as a less than willing member of the Waffen-SS, joining strictly in the interests of preserving Finnish sovereignty in the latter stages of the Second World War. Seeing the Nazi cause as faulty, he surrendered willing to British troops but promptly escaped from prisoner of war camp. He return to a Finland that had maintained it's sovereignty against Soviet aggression, only to be captured by Finnish State Police for his relatively limited collaboration for the now widely denounced Nazi regime.