Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Swedish Intervention in the Winter War was a short-lived but successful attempt by the Swedish Volunteer Corps, along with other Nordic volunteers, to prevent a Soviet invasion of Finland during the Winter War. The volunteers only engaged in a few skirmishes on ground and in the air, the only major battles they participated in being the battles of Salla and Honkaniemi. The term \"volunteers\" have often been used to describe the Nordic military support for Finland in the Winter War, although involvement by the government of Sweden has been debated over time. Nevertheless, the Swedish military sent enormous amounts of aid to Finland, including:Approximately 2,000,000,000 crowns (US$ ~312,658,890) of financial aid - twice the size of the Finnish defense budget at the time50,013,300 rounds of small arms ammunition135,402 rifles450 light machine guns347 machine guns301,846 artillery shells144 field guns92 anti-armor guns100 anti-aircraft guns300 sea mines500 depth charges83 motorcycles83 cars350 trucks13 tractors17 fighter aircraft5 light bombers1 transport aircraft3 reconnaissance aircraft↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑"@en }
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- Swedish_Intervention_in_the_Winter_War abstract "The Swedish Intervention in the Winter War was a short-lived but successful attempt by the Swedish Volunteer Corps, along with other Nordic volunteers, to prevent a Soviet invasion of Finland during the Winter War. The volunteers only engaged in a few skirmishes on ground and in the air, the only major battles they participated in being the battles of Salla and Honkaniemi. The term \"volunteers\" have often been used to describe the Nordic military support for Finland in the Winter War, although involvement by the government of Sweden has been debated over time. Nevertheless, the Swedish military sent enormous amounts of aid to Finland, including:Approximately 2,000,000,000 crowns (US$ ~312,658,890) of financial aid - twice the size of the Finnish defense budget at the time50,013,300 rounds of small arms ammunition135,402 rifles450 light machine guns347 machine guns301,846 artillery shells144 field guns92 anti-armor guns100 anti-aircraft guns300 sea mines500 depth charges83 motorcycles83 cars350 trucks13 tractors17 fighter aircraft5 light bombers1 transport aircraft3 reconnaissance aircraft↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑".