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Ghp95134, thanks for posting! i have never seen some of those photos anywhere else. Larry Thorne (Lauri Törni) was a great soldier with an amazing career. As I'll bet you already know, his time with the Waffen SS was for training only. He was basically TDY to them for officer's training. He was never a Nazi, but always a staunch anti-communist. As I posted a while back, I have a couple of Larry Thorne puukkos, originally made as potential awards for 10th Group. (See "edged weapons" subforum) I never served with 10th, but bought them from the guy who had them made. He has no more. They were sold for a while in "The Drop." IDK and don't think any were ever used as awards, based on my discussions with the gentleman, thus the magazine sales.