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[dimlee]

Originally Posted by Verdun1916

My pleasure! Sweden and Swedish citizens was more involved in WWII then most people realize even though our country was officially neutral.
About 12 000 Swedish men volontered to go and fight to defend Finland during the Winter War, about 8 000 made it there and saw service with the Swedish Volonteer Corps before the Armistice. My grandfather was one of those 8 000.
Other Swedes saw military service with the German Heer, the Waffen-SS, the US Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the R.A.F, the British Army, the Red Army and the French Foreign Legion and probably in other branches of service and with other countries aswell.

And there were Swedish merchant seamen who have participated in WWII de facto - being under danger of naval and air attacks from all sides in all seas, from Baltic to South Atlantic. Losses were in hundreds...

[Verdun1916]

Originally Posted by dimlee

And there were Swedish merchant seamen who have participated in WWII de facto - being under danger of naval and air attacks from all sides in all seas, from Baltic to South Atlantic. Losses were in hundreds...

Indeed there were, dimlee! A lot of Swedish merchant ships sailed with supplies between North America and the British isles and several were sunk by the U-boats.
Some of the surviving sailers were so pissed off at the Germans they joined the Allied Forces after beeing sunk. Sivert Windh from Hässleholm, Sweden were I live was one of them. He joined the US Army after beeing his ship had been sunk. He fought ass an infantry man from Normandy to the Ardennes were he was wounded. He was then transfered to the SOE and ended the War on a mission in northern Norway after beeing accidentaly dropped on the wrong side of the border by a C-47 with his team. They ended up on the Swedish side of the Mountains and stumbled upon a Swedish policeman who thought they were spies and arrested them. The policeman was quite surprised when Sivert spoke to him in perfekt Swedish with our typical Scanian dialect. He and his team was later released to continue their mission into Norway.