It initially fought in the northern Finland, participating in the Finno-German Operation Arctic Fox.

[2] During the war, the division fought mostly in the Ukhta and Kestenga area, where it participated in Operation Arctic Fox, the Finno-German drive towards the Murmansk railway.

[3] Observing the speed of advance of the III Corps, the Germans reinforced Group J with a regiment-sized element of SS-troops.

[5] In 1944 the division was transferred to the Karelian Isthmus,[6] where it participated in the Finnish defense against the Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive.

[10] As part of the Lapland War against Germany, the division's Infantry Regiment 11 conducted a landing in Tornio in the morning of October 1st, 1944.