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Lauri Törni

1919 - 1965

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Lauri Allan Törni (28 May 1919 – 18 October 1965), later known as Larry Alan Thorne, was a Finnish-born soldier who fought under three flags: as a Finnish Army officer in the Winter War and the Continuation War ultimately gaining a rank of captain; as a Waffen-SS captain (under the alias Larry Laine) of the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS when he fought the Red Army on the Eastern Front in World War II; and as a United States Army Major (under the alias "Larry Thorne") when he served in the U.S. Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War. Törni died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War and he was promoted to the rank of major posthumously. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lauri Törni has received more than 2,151,188 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Lauri Törni is the 488th most popular military personnel (up from 489th in 2019), the 427th most popular biography from Russia (down from 398th in 2019) and the 37th most popular Russian Military Personnel.

Lauri Törni is most famous for being the first Westerner to become a hero of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union award, the Order of Lenin, and the Order of the Red Banner.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Lauri Törni ranks 488 out of 1,468. Before him are Nogi Maresuke, Vjekoslav Luburić, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Tamara Bunke, Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, and Conon. After him are Harpagus, Jean-Charles Pichegru, Henri Guisan, Ernst Lindemann, Heinz Harmel, and Lucius Artorius Castus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Lauri Törni ranks 48. Before him are Oleg Penkovsky, Iris Murdoch, César Manrique, Chavela Vargas, James Lovelock, and Georges Duby. After him are Martin Balsam, Art Blakey, William Lipscomb, Donald J. Cram, Teruo Nakamura, and Ryszard Kaczorowski. Among people deceased in 1965, Lauri Törni ranks 35. Before him are Frederick Fleet, Joseph Erlanger, Sālote Tupou III, Louis Hjelmslev, Bernard Baruch, and David O. Selznick. After him are Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Fan Noli, Aksel Sandemose, Angelica Balabanoff, Hans Knappertsbusch, and Carl Værnet.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Lauri Törni ranks 427 out of 3,262. Before him are Yuri Lotman (1922), Yuri Nikulin (1921), Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903), Prince Albert of Prussia (1809), Elsa Triolet (1896), and Sophia Tolstaya (1844). After him are Ramzan Kadyrov (1976), Sergei Krikalev (1958), Valeri Polyakov (1942), Yury Luzhkov (1936), Edith Södergran (1892), and Dmitry Pozharsky (1577).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Russia

Among military personnels born in Russia, Lauri Törni ranks 37. Before him are Nikolai Kuznetsov (1904), Dmitry Pavlov (1897), Viktor Kulikov (1921), Pavel Nakhimov (1802), Zinovy Rozhestvensky (1848), and Roza Shanina (1924). After him are Dmitry Pozharsky (1577), Fyodor Ushakov (1745), Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (1787), Werner Ostendorff (1903), Filipp Golikov (1900), and Alexander Pokryshkin (1913).

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