Word: hamina
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northward out across the ice. Some rode in tanks, some in huge sledges driven by airplane motors. As dawn broke they would strike at the unfortified coast, gripping at small coastal islands, making a landing and trying to establish a foothold on shore, hitting occasionally for towns like Kotka. Hamina, Virolahti...
This country is rough and rocky, with a line of low glacial hills running from the shore of Lake Saimaa to Hamina on the Gulf. Along this line the Finns were expected to make their next stand. The eastern end of the Mannerheim Line would eventually have to be abandoned also, with that part of the Finnish Army probably retreating to join the forces north of Lake Laatokka. Apparently the Finns hoped, by thus splitting their Isthmus army, to harass the Russian rear with guerrilla tactics, keep the Russians too busy to organize a drive on Helsinki before spring...
...bombing weather. As if to give the Finns a taste of what is in store for them-possibly in hope of cracking their morale-the Russian air force last week made a clean sweep of the south of Finland, sparing only Helsinki, killed and wounded hundreds of civilians in Hamina, Kotka, Hanko, Turku, Lahti, Riihimaki, Kouvola, Tampere, Porvoo, Karjaa...
Gustaf (who probably liked the Devil's Chamber better than the Church salon) was packed off to the Hamina Cadet School at the age of 14 and immediately established himself as a leader. He went on to the Nikolaev Cavalry School in Russia proper and came out a second lieutenant in 1889, aged 22. Two years later he wangled a transfer to the Tsar's Chevalier Guard. After his marriage to Anastasia, daughter of Major General Nikolai Arapov of the Tsar's suite, Lieutenant Mannerheim's advance was rapid. He became a first lieutenant...
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