Word: bothnian
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...risks probably did outweigh the gains. But so, perhaps, did necessity outweigh choice. Hitler could have nailed down his Swedish iron supply by sending a small shock army to Lulea after the Bothnian ice goes out next month. Perhaps he was forced into the Norwegian adventure prematurely by Allied moves. March 28, the Allied Supreme War Council decided to carry the war more sternly to the Germans, to squeeze even harder with the blockade. April 3 impetuous Winston Churchill was named British coordinator of defense. April 5 is the latest Herr Hitler could have started his first convoys toward Norway...
...their greatest aerial offensive since the first terroristic raids of the war. More than 300 bombers, flying high, raided almost every important city of southern Finland, including Helsinki (where the house of U. S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld was struck), concentrating on the Turku-Helsinki railroad and the Bothnian railroad terminus of Vaasa. Civilian casualties were small (not more than 15), but many business structures in the smaller cities were in flames, due to inadequate fire-fighting equipment. The planes went as far north as the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, bombed the Swedish island of Kallaks, near...
...roads leading from Suomussalmi church to the frontier, then stormed into Suomussalmi village, routed Russian tanks, and trapped a Russian force they estimated at 10,000. If the Finns could prevent this force from working in conjunction with the columns to the north and south, Russia's Bothnian threat would be ended and the lost columns could be starved, frozen or carved to death...
After two days of air-bombing, a heavy snowfall grounded all planes. The blizzard also impeded evacuation of foreigners from Helsinki and other cities. Most foreigners sought to cross the Bothnian Sea to Sweden...
Islands by which Russia could bottle up the Bothnian Sea, Finland revealed that it had laid mines-illegally, but without eliciting complaint from the only legally interested party, Sweden. Russian ships shelled Viipuri and moved out through the Gulf past Helsinki to attack Hangö, "The Baltic Gibraltar." Finland's little fleet, centred around the shallow-draft pocket-battleships Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen moved cautiously to meet them. An attempted landing was repelled at Porvoo. When the Red ships came within range, the fortress at Russarö guarding Hangö opened fire. One Soviet destroyer was reported sunk, one damaged...
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