What’s New on the Military Pages

2024-12-16

The web page displaying the Swedish military rank insignia was originally available in both Swedish and English on the same page. This website has now been divided such that the page containing the Swedish rank insignia in English is only in English: • Swedish Military Rank Insignias • Svenska militära gradbeteckningar (the page in Swedish)

2024-03-16

Sweden joins Nato on 7 March 2024: • Sweden Joins NATO, March 2024 2022-09-03 New page explaining the basics of the Swedish military allotment system: • Briefly the Swedish Military Allotment System 2022-08-25 New page about the history of the Swedish armored troops, tanks in the Swedish Army and uniforms of the Swedish armored troops: • Tanks of Sweden 2022-08-01 New page about Swedish military aircraft, both propeller and jet, designations, nationality markings etc: • Swedish Military Aircraft 2022-05-10 New page about animals in war service, both in Sweden and other countries: • Animals in War Service 2022-04-26 The page on Sweden’s Military Preparedness 1939 - 1945 has been supplemented with a new page with military pictures from the years of WWII: • Military Images, Sweden, 1939 - 1945 2021-01-21 A new page about the History of the Swedish Military Intelligence Services: • History of the Swedish Military Intelligence, 2021-01-11 A new page about the Swedish Voluntary Defense Services: • Swedish Voluntary Defense Services 2021-01-05 A new page about the Aircraft Warning Service and the female volunteer aircraft observers during WWII: • Aircraft Warning Service - Female Aircraft Observers 2020-12-29 Two new pages about the uniforms of the Swedish Women’s Voluntary Defense Service: • Military Uniforms of the Swedish Women’s Voluntary Defense Service • Service Uniforms of the Swedish Lotta Corps (Swe: Lottakåren) 2020-12-17 A new page about the Swedish military units during WWII, 1939 - 1945: • Swedish military war units 1939 - 1945 2020-12-15 A new page about Sweden’s Military Preparedness 1939 - 1945, i.e. during WWII. • Sweden’s Military Preparedness 1939 - 1945 2020-12-12 A new page about Swedish Signals Intelligence and the Crypto Department during WWII. • Signals Intelligence - Crypto Department 1939 - 1945 2020-12-09 A new page about the Norwegian and Danish Police Troops established and trained in Sweden during WWII. • Norwegian and Danish Police Troops established in Sweden , WWII 2020-11-25 A new page about the Swedish Volunteer Corps, a Swedish volunteer military force which served in Finland during the so-called Winter War 1939 - 1940. The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union (USSR) and Finland. It began with the Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939. • The Swedish Volunteer Corps in Finland, WWII 2020-07-23 I have added a few new photos of Swedish military uniforms of the 1800s on the Army Uniforms page; the cavalry greatcoat bigesch m/1858, the artillery atilla m/1873 and the Army Engineers kollett m/1873, uniform m/1878 and uniform m/1888: • Bigesch m/1858 • Atilla m/1873 • Kollett m/1873, uniform m/1878 and uniform m/1888 2020-05-25 The page about “Swedish Military Orders and Medals of Bravery” has been updated with information about present-day medals: • Swedish Military Orders and Medals of Bravery Top of Page