'Corporal Rokka'

ink & digital 2010,
Corporal Viljam Pylkäs is being remembered from his daring deeds from the Winter War and the Continuation War. According to Väinö Linna, his character of "Rokka" in novel Tuntematon Sotilas was based on Pylkäs.
Depicted here is the incident in which Pylkäs wiped out the entire flanking group of Soviets in Pertjärvi, Syväri in April 1942. Estimates for casualties vary according to source, many claiming 83 enemy dead.
Pylkäs was wounded in early July 1944, during the fighting retreat from Eastern Karelia.

NOTICE: I later learned that, in this particular incident Pylkäs used the 50-round box magazines, not the 70-round drum magazines I have depicted here.