Vilho Petter Nenonen
Vilho Petteri Nenonen | |
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Born | Kuopio, Grand Duchy of Finland | 6 March 1883
Died | 17 February 1960 Helsinki, Finland | (aged 76)
Allegiance | Russian Empire (1901–1917) White Finland (1918) Finland (1918–1947) |
Service/ | Imperial Russian Army White Guard Finnish Army |
Years of service | 1901–1947 |
Rank | Lieutenant Colonel (Russia) General of the Artillery (Finland) |
Battles/wars | First World War Finnish Civil War Winter War Continuation War |
Awards | Mannerheim Cross 2nd class |
Vilho Petter Nenonen (6 March 1883 in Kuopio – 17 February 1960) was a Finnish general.[1]
He received his military education in the Hamina Cadet School 1896-1901, in the Mihailov Artillery School in St Petersburg 1901-1903, and in St Petersburg Artillery Academy 1906-1909.[2] He served in the Russian army during World War I.[3] When the Finnish Civil War began he moved to Finland and was given the job of creating the artillery of general Mannerheim's White Army.[4] After the war Nenonen also served as the Minister of Defence between 1923 and 1924.[5] During the Continuation War he was a part of Mannerheim's inner circle.[6] He was promoted to the rank of General of the artillery in 1941.[7]
Nenonen developed the Finnish Army's artillery and tactics that proved decisive in the defensive victory in the Battle of Tali-Ihantala.[8] The trajectory calculation formulas he developed are still in use today by all modern artillery.[9]
Nenonen received the Mannerheim Cross in 1945.[10]
His medals and personal history is on display in The Artillery Museum of Finland.[11]
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- 1883 births
- 1960 deaths
- People from Kuopio
- People from Kuopio Province (Grand Duchy of Finland)
- Finnish generals
- Imperial Russian military personnel
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- People of the Finnish Civil War (White side)
- Finnish military personnel of World War II
- Knights of the Mannerheim Cross