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...Finns did a little raiding of their own. Finnish fliers bombed Russian troop concentrations and supply lines for the Karelian Isthmus. They also raided the captured border village of Terijoki, where Red Finns had set up a "People's Government" and equipped a "People's Army" with uniforms from the reign of Sweden's Charles XII (1697-1718) filched from a museum...
...Soviet troops started shelling this hill. . . . They continued shelling it all day, making it untenable for Finnish snipers and blowing almost the whole...
...Finnish advance lines in timber clumps opened up with machine-gun fire and . . . picked off a few men behind each tank...
...Slowly the snow-clogged tanks advanced to the foot of the hill, with only three-fourths of the infantrymen left. A Finnish mortar or anti-tank shell burst twenty yards from the first tank and the Russian soldiers dropped to the ground. The tank seemed disabled, for it stopped. The three other tanks went on a few more yards to some granite boulders at the foot of the hill, then turned and plunged at full speed back to the woods for more...
...While the tanks were returning to the woods a Finnish advance machine-gun nest from high boulders on the east opened fire on the Russian troops at the foot of the hill. We could not see the result, but it must have been devastating, for the nest was almost behind...