Word: hanko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kronstadt's huge guns were silenced by Nazi artillery and dive-bombers. The sea approaches to Leningrad were threatened as German naval and Luftwaffe parties battered their way onto the stubbornly defended Estonian Islands, Oesel, Vormsi and Moon. The Finns put new pressure on the sea fort of Hanko. German warships were reported steaming into the Baltic to smoke the Red Fleet and its stinging artillery out of the Gulf of Finland...
...north it was the same. The Finns were not fighting their summer war as crisply as they had their winter war. They sighed when they heard that around Hanko, which the Russians leased after the winter war, the Reds' phosphorous shells were burning out the pine woods where the Finns had loved to play on vacations. They shrugged when they heard that British funds given generously during the winter war were being used to help the Nazis; that an orphanage built by British gifts now billeted Nazi soldiers...
Aland Islands: o'land Hanko: hang'koe Helsinki: hell'sink...
...diplomatic fermentation. On the eve of German Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg's return from a long stay in Berlin the Russian press made two significant announcements that: 1) 12,000 German troops had landed in Finland, within 50 miles of the Russian base at Hanko; 2) since March 18 shipment of war materials across the U.S.S.R. had been forbidden...
...land in the Jääski region, north of Viipuri, and promised to return a similar patch elsewhere. More important, he exacted the right to transport military material across Finland. For the time being, this right was to be exercised only in fortifying the Russian treaty port of Hanko; but Finns-and Swedes as well-knew that a fateful precedent had been...