Word: ladoga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armored train as a battering ram for their attacks, and inside the city workers labored day and night toward the completion of two more such trains. One Russian lunge drove back the German right wing, restoring the line to its position in early September. The Reds sneaked across Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland in small boats to harass the German flanks. The Germans seemed to be digging in almost defensively-with half-buried tanks as pillboxes...
...eastern boundary that would be easier to defend. By occupying Karelia (ceded to Russia in 1920) to the east, Finland's land boundary with Russia from the White Sea to the Gulf of Finland would be conveniently short, broken up by the big lakes Onega and Ladoga. The Karelians, who are racially kin to the Finns and speak a kind of Russianized Finnish, are well scattered throughout northeastern Russia. If the Finns should decide to claim, by racial right, all the territory in which they live, the New Finland would run as far east as Archangel, cut off Russia...
...northern front the Russians fared better. The attack on Leningrad-which the Germans persisted in calling by the Tsarist name, St. Petersburg-developed as a sneak around two lakes: Ladoga on the Finnish side, Peipus on the Estonian. The Finns, said a German reporter, fought so fanatically that they had to be restrained; but the Russians fought hard too. One German reporter described "bandits" on this front who fought with axes, daggers, broken bottles and adzes...
...Melone 3L, Minneapolis, Minn.; Charles F. Barber 2L, Chicago, Ill.; Frederick P. Warne 3L, Yonkers, N. Y.; Irving R. Storch 3L, New York, N. Y.; Herman D. Cummings 3L, Ambridge, Pa.; Daniel MeN. Gribbon 3L, Youngstown, O.; Dudley B. Tenney 2L, Washington, D. C.; Robert S. Ashby 3L, Ladoga, Ind.; Albert J. Rosenthal 3L. New York, N. Y.; Jacob Swartz 3L, Mishawaka, Ind.; Marcus Manoff grL, Philadelphia, Pa.; Matthew J. Kust 3L, Madison...
...entire Karelian Isthmus and north shore of Lake Ladoga...