Battle of Tornio

The Battle of Tornio (October 1–8, 1944) was the first major engagement between Nazi Germany and Finland in the Lapland War; although hostilities had already begun elsewhere (see Tanne Ost).

Battle of Tornio
Part of the Lapland War of World War II

Finnish Panzerschreck team near Tornio
Date1-8 October 1944
Location
Kemi-Tornio area, Finnish Lapland
Result Finnish victory
Belligerents
Germany  Finland
Commanders and leaders
Mathias Kräutler Hjalmar Siilasvuo
Strength
7,000
11 tanks & artillery		 12,500
2 gunboats
Casualties and losses
500 killed
1,600 wounded
400 captured
4 tanks lost		 375 killed
1,400 wounded
23 captured
This article is about the 1944 Battle of Tornio between Germany and Finland. For the 1918 Battle of Tornio during the Finnish Civil War, see Battle of Tornio (1918).
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