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Post by Mikko H. » 03 Nov 2005, 08:16

Correct, over to you!

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Post by Juha Tompuri » 03 Nov 2005, 17:27

Thanks Mikko,

Good hints :)
New one: at least one KV-2 tank was destroyed by Finnish troops.
How and where?

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Post by Mikko H. » 03 Nov 2005, 18:34

By 60kg trotyl charge in Alakurtti in August 1941. IIRC the tank was about to fall in Finnish hands intact, but as the men of the 6. Divisioona were promised vacation for destroyed tanks, the grunts played it safe by blowing the tank up!

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Post by Juha Tompuri » 03 Nov 2005, 20:52

Mikko H. wrote:By 60kg trotyl charge in Alakurtti in August 1941. IIRC the tank was about to fall in Finnish hands intact, but as the men of the 6. Divisioona were promised vacation for destroyed tanks, the grunts played it safe by blowing the tank up!
Correct!
Several other tanks were "lost" the same way too :(
I think that charge would be sufficient even today.
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Post by Mikko H. » 03 Nov 2005, 21:08

Thank you! That story at least has the moral: be careful what you wish for, you might end up getting it!

And the question: in what way sotamies Eero Jooseppi Toivonen was a very unlucky man?

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#636

Post by Mikko H. » 04 Nov 2005, 19:38

It isn't the question of what happened, but rather how many times it happened.

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Post by Mikko H. » 05 Nov 2005, 21:27

Still, sotamies Toivonen was lucky enough to survive ordeals that caused the death of many other Finnish soldiers who had similar (not the same) fate.

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Post by Mikko H. » 06 Nov 2005, 19:45

To be exact, he went twice through an ordeal that on the second time around caused the death of more than 40% of Finnish soldiers who experienced it.

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Post by Esa K » 07 Nov 2005, 12:19

...this was a bit tricky... but, could it be so that he became a POW twice, first in the Winter War and then in the Continuation War...?


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Post by Mikko H. » 07 Nov 2005, 12:43

Precisely. Over to you!

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Post by Esa K » 07 Nov 2005, 16:41

Thanks Mikko H.


New q: The church in Kivennapa was destroyed during the Winter War, and when the village was retaken during the Continuation War, Gen. Maj. Pajaris troops built a new church there. The new church had one function that made it unique compared with other Finnish churches. What was the function...?


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Post by Esa K » 08 Nov 2005, 13:10

Hmmm...

Hint # 1: The function was unique in 1943-1944. It´s said that the late medival stone churches in Finland once had a similar function, although not in the same manner...


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Post by Juha Tompuri » 08 Nov 2005, 17:50

Could it be so that the Kivennavan/Pajarin church had a asehuone ("weapon's room") ?

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Post by Esa K » 08 Nov 2005, 19:25

Well, how to put it. I think the Pajari-church, as all other Finnish stone, wooden etc etc churches had a asehuone - Porch (asehuone = literally Weapon room). But it´s not that old function that the porch had I´m looking for.

Hint # 2: But, weapon room could be a somehow good point to start from when figuring this out. What function is similar with the Pajari-church and a Finnish medival stone church...?


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Post by John T » 09 Nov 2005, 00:37

Esa K wrote:Well, how to put it. I think the Pajari-church, as all other Finnish stone, wooden etc etc churches had a asehuone - Porch (asehuone = literally Weapon room). But it´s not that old function that the porch had I´m looking for.

Hint # 2: But, weapon room could be a somehow good point to start from when figuring this out. What function is similar with the Pajari-church and a Finnish medival stone church...?


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Since no medivial church had a air raid lookout, I guess on firing slits.


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