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...that Erskine Hawkins, Glenn Miller, Jan Savitt, and Al Donahue have all made "Tuxede Junction" and the tune looks like the hit of the month, a little story telling is in order...
...after every centre of communications: railways, telegraph and telephone centres, roadheads, bridges, factories. (They got a ski factory and the Finns were short of skis.) This meant that civilians had to bear the brunt of the bombings. Typical of the destruction wrought was the case of Sortavala, vital railway junction on the north shore of Laatokka. Correspondent James Aldridge left it, "majestic in the moonlight." one midnight. The next night he returned, "saw a bloody glow in the sky and realized the city was in flames...
...north shore of Lake Laatokka lies the busy sawmill town of Sortavala, strategically as important a town as there is in all of Finland. Sortavala is the junction of two railroads, one leading north to Finland's waist, which the Russians have been trying to cut, the other going southwest to Viipuri and the Mannerheim Line, which the Russians have been trying to storm. Through this town pass Finnish troops withdrawn from one front to reinforce the other. If Russia had Sortavala, the mobility of the Finnish Army would be dangerously curtailed and Russia would have a railroad...
...Cumberland is formed by the junction of Poor Fork and Clover Fork of Cumberland at Baxter, in Harlan County, Kentucky, some 200 miles upstream from Celina where the Obey flows into the Cumberland...
...column reached Nurmes, cutting the railroad that runs diagonally across Finland from Tornio on the Swedish frontier to south Karelia and the isthmus. Farther north, another column took Suomussalmi and turned southward toward lisalmi, a rail junction in the centre of Finland. Still farther north, a third column bore down on the roadhead of Kuusamo. Most daring of all, the fourth division crossed the low mountains to Kuolajärvi and thence sped westward past Kemijärvi toward Rovaniemi, which lies on Finland's highway to the Arctic. From Rovaniemi this column might strike southward to Kemi...