How a Former Waffen-SS Officer Became an American War Hero Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
Paradigma de interes
A white granite headstone in Section 60 of Arlington National Cemetery bears a name that sounds American: Larry Allan Thorne. But the man buried there was born Lauri Allan Törni in Viipuri, Finland, on May 28, 1919, fought for three nations across three decades, and remains the only known former Waffen-SS member interred at Arlington — a legendary soldier who became a U.S. Army Special Forces hero. Fighting for Finland in the Winter War Törni enlisted in the Finnish military in 1938, joining
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