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...artillery fire the Russians attacked in waves. Six times the Finns threw them back, with losses of 3,000 in two days, according to the Finns. But the Finns themselves lost heavily, and another 100,000 of Dictator Stalin's best troops were reported astride the Leningrad-Viipuri railway, massed for a frontal attack on Viipuri. It began to look as though the Finns could not hold on much longer. But still the Finns held...
...some time getting what he wanted. But his Armies made desperate efforts to get him at least a little something. While strengthened land forces hurled themselves at the Finns on three fronts, Soviet airplanes opened a fresh campaign of terror, raining bombs on Finland's southern cities-Helsinki, Viipuri, Turku, Hanko, Tampere and Porvoo. Finns said 350 planes took part in a single day's bombing...
...women & children, put out the city's lights, pocked the airport and factory section, wrecked the new Technical Institute, but in two days of bombing did not succeed in impairing communications. Thermit incendiary bombs* set the west end of Helsinki ablaze. Other prime targets were the ports of Viipuri, Kotka, Hangö, Turku and Vaasa, the big power plant at Imatra, gas mask factory at Lahti. After unloading their bombs, the planes swooped to machine-gun their objectives. Finnish anti-aircraft guns and fighting planes shot down a dozen or more Red attackers, whose pilots expressed surprise. They...
Fiercest ground fighting was at Suojärvi, northern end of Finland's upper defense line in Viipuri Province (formerly Karelia). Here the Russians evidently advanced in close formation for the Finns told of shooting down two entire companies (800 men) with "machine pistols," a Chicago-type sawed-off machine gun, reputedly capable of 250 rounds per minute. A Finnish soldier, speaking over the radio, said: "I don't believe the Russians are used to us seal shooters. Compared to a seal's head in the water, they [Russians] are almost too big a target. You hardly...
Islands by which Russia could bottle up the Bothnian Sea, Finland revealed that it had laid mines-illegally, but without eliciting complaint from the only legally interested party, Sweden. Russian ships shelled Viipuri and moved out through the Gulf past Helsinki to attack Hangö, "The Baltic Gibraltar." Finland's little fleet, centred around the shallow-draft pocket-battleships Vainamoinen and Ilmarinen moved cautiously to meet them. An attempted landing was repelled at Porvoo. When the Red ships came within range, the fortress at Russarö guarding Hangö opened fire. One Soviet destroyer was reported sunk, one damaged...