Lauri Törni, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Lauri Törni

Finnish military officer in the Finnish Army, Waffen-SS, and U.S. Army

Date of Birth: 28-May-1919

Place of Birth: Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 18-Oct-1965

Profession: military officer

Nationality: United States, Finland

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Lauri Allan Törni (28 May 1919 – 18 October 1965), later known as Larry Alan Thorne, was a Finnish soldier who fought under three flags: as a Finnish Army Second Lieutenant of the Fourth Independent Jäger Infantry Battalion against the Soviets in the Winter War and the Soviet-Finnish sub-theater of World War II known as the Continuation War; as a German Army Captain (under the alias Larry Lane) of the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS when he fought the Soviets on the Eastern Front in World War II; and as a United States Army Captain (under the alias "Larry Thorne") when he served in the U.S.
Army Special Forces in the Vietnam War. Törni died in a helicopter crash during the Vietnam War and he was promoted to rank of Major posthumously.
His remains were located three decades later and then buried in Arlington National Cemetery; he is the only former member of the Waffen SS to be interred there.