POTD: Finnish Veteran Shoots Maxim Gun Again
At the beginning of January Ruotuvaki, Finland’s armed forces magazine published a story about Hannes Tuovinen, a veteran of the Continuation War, who was reunited with the Finish Maxim M/32-33 after 76 years. As an 18 year old Tuovinen had been trained to use the Maxim M/32-33 and fought during the Continuation War – a conflict separate from but fought concurrently to World War Two by Finland and Nazi Germany, as co-belligerents, against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1944. The Continuation War began just over a year after the end of the 1940 Winter War.
94 year old Hannes Tuovinen enjoyed a day at the range with his son Erkki and put a belt through the original Maxim M/32-33. Check out the Ruotuvaki article here.
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I thought this was an Eric B article at first glance.
Would have been nice to mention what they guy said about shooting the maxim again. That it was a lot more fun to shoot when you're not shooting at people.