Continuation War
The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet–Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice. The Soviet Union and Finland had previously fought the Winter War from 1939 to 1940, which ended with the Soviet failure to conquer Finland and the Moscow Peace Treaty. Numerous reasons have been proposed for the Finnish decision to invade, with regaining territory lost during the Winter War regarded as the most common. Other justifications for the conflict include Finnish President Risto Ryti's vision of a Greater Finland and Commander-in-Chief Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's desire to annex East Karelia. On 22 June 1941, the Axis Powers invaded the Soviet Union. Three days later, the Soviet Union conducted an air raid on Finnish cities which prompted Finland to declare war and allow German troops in Finland to begin offensive warfare. By September 1941, Finland had regained its post–Winter War concessions to the Soviet Union in Karelia. The Finnish Army continued its offensive past the 1939 border during the invasion of East Karelia and halted it only around 30–32 km (19–20 mi) from the centre of Leningrad. It participated in besieging the city by cutting the northern supply routes and by digging in until 1944. In Lapland, joint German–Finnish forces failed to capture Murmansk or cut the Kirov (Murmansk) Railway. The Soviet Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive in June and August 1944 drove the Finns from most of the territories that they had gained during the war, but the Finnish Army halted the offensive in August 1944. Hostilities between Finland and the USSR ceased in September 1944 with the signing of the Moscow Armistice in which Finland restored its borders per the 1940 Moscow Peace Treaty and additionally ceded Petsamo and leased the Porkkala Peninsula to the Soviets. Furthermore, Finland was required to pay war reparations to the Soviet Union, accept partial responsibility for the war, and acknowledge that it had been a German ally. Finland was also required by the agreement to expel German troops from Finnish territory, which led to the Lapland War between Finland and Germany.
Events
12 events out of 69 dated ones. Dates, names and descriptions are the sources' own.
1941
Perustamisesta Kollaalle 18.6. - 16.7.1941 Parolaan 23. - 24.6. leiriytyminen Lehijärven ympäristöön Aittovaaraan 2.7. Karjalan Armeijan reserviksi Tuupovaaran Lastujärven ja Loitimojärven väliselle kannakselle yöllä 8./9.7.
1941
II patteristo alistettiin 19.6.1941 10. divisioonalle, joka ryhmitettiin suojajoukkona Nuijamaalle. Patteristo marssi Saimaan kanavan vartta asemiin Nuijamaalle, missä tarkkuutettiin patteriston tykit 76 K/02 ja 122 H/10 sekä henkilökohtaiset aseet.
1941
Pataljoona keskitettiin junakuljetuksena Hankasalmelta Kallislahteen 20. kesäkuuta 1941 alkaen, mistä matka jatkui autokuljetuksella Pihlajalahteen, jossa pataljoona siirtyi proomukuljetuksella Likastenlahteen.
1941
Pataljoona siirtyi 20.6.1941 Lemille, missä 1. Komppania majoittui Huttulan kylään, 2. Komppania Lavelan kylään ja 3. Komppania Sutelan kylään. 3. Komppania siirtyi jo seuraavana päivänä Lappeelle Kärjen kylään.
1941
Pataljoona siirtyi 20.6.1941 Lemille, missä 1. Komppania majoittui Huttulan kylään, 2. Komppania Lavelan kylään ja 3. Komppania Sutelan kylään. 3. Komppania siirtyi jo seuraavana päivänä Lappeelle Kärjen kylään.
1941
Patteriston sotavalmiustarkastus oli urheilukentällä 21. kesäkuuta 1941 kello 07.30 ja marssi keskitysalueelle alkoi kello 08.00 eli välittömästi tarkastuksen jälkeen. Marssireitti oli Oulu - Korpi - Ylikiiminki - Vepsä - Vuotto - Puolanka - Kyrö - Hyrynsalmi - Suomussalmi, jonne saavuttiin saman päivän iltana. Patteristo siirtyi lähemmäksi rajaa Saukon maastoon 28. kesäkuuta ja valmistelemiinsa tuliasemiin Raatevaaran länsiosiin 30. kesäkuuta 1941.
1941
Pataljoona keskitettiin 21.6. jalkamarssina Suonenjoelle ja sieltä junakuljetuksena Liperiin, jonne se saapui 22.6.1941.
1941
Pataljoona keskitettiin 21.6. jalkamarssina Suonenjoelle ja sieltä junakuljetuksena Liperiin, jonne se saapui 22.6.1941.
1941
Battle of Hanko
The Battle of Hanko (also known as the Hanko front or the siege of Hanko) was a lengthy series of small battles fought on Hanko Peninsula during the Continuation War between Finland and the Soviet Union in the second half of 1941. As both sides were eager to avoid a major, costly ground battle, fighting took the form of trench warfare, with artillery exchanges, sniping, patrol clashes, and small amphibious operations performed in the surrounding archipelago. A Swedish Volunteer Battalion served with Finnish forces in the siege. The last Soviet troops left the peninsula in December 1941.
== Background == As part of the 1940 Moscow Peace Treaty which formally ended the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, Hanko was leased to the Soviet Union as a Soviet naval base. The civilian population was forced to evacuate before Soviet forces arrived. The leased area included several surrounding islands, several coastal artillery sites (among them the important fort of Russarö), important harbor facilities, and an area suitable for an airfield, which the Soviets quickly constructed. Troop transport rights from the Soviet Union to Hanko and back put severe strain on Finnish-Soviet relations, and played a part both in Finland's decision to allow German troops to transit Northern Finland, and later, to go to war with the Soviet Union. Though Hanko had originally been leased as a naval base, ground forces were far more numerous, with only a small naval detachment being present at the base.
1941
Tyrvään patteristo (II/KTR 12) kuormattiin junaan Tyrvään asemalla 24. kesäkuuta 1941 ja juna purettiin parin päivän kuluttua Särkisalmen asemalla, mistä siirryttiin ensimmäisiin tuliasemiin Silamusjärven länsipuolelle.
1941
Pataljoonan miehistön pääosa oli kotoisin Itä-Savon sotilaspiirin itäisistä kunnista Kitee, Kesälahti ja Uukuniemi. Näin ollen pataljoona perustettiin käytännössä keskittämisalueellaan, joten erillisiä siirtokuljetuksia ei juuri tarvittu. Suomen valtakunnan poliittinen johto ilmoitti 25. kesäkuuta 1941 Suomen olevan sodassa Neuvostoliittoa vastaan.
1941
Keskityskuljetuskäsky saapui rykmenttiin 25. kesäkuuta ja seuraavana päivänä siirtyi junakuljetuksena rykmentin esikunta sekä kolonna Lapualta, toisessa junassa 13. ja 14. komppania Ähtäristä, ja sitten pataljoonat omilta perustamispaikoiltaan kukin kahdella junalla. Junat purettiin Putikossa, paitsi II pataljoona Kulennoisissa ja III pataljoona Punkasalmella. Rykmentti koottiin ensimmäisen kerran Putikosta pohjoiseen Enonlahden ja Naaralahden välille.
Where you can still see it
All 863 sites863 sites are dated to this period. 180 of them have a photograph.
Jatkosotaan lähdön muistomerkki, Elimäki
A memorial related to the wars. Memorial designed by Aimo Tukiainen. Unveiled 1985.
Photograph of the siteIsänmaan puolesta 1939-1944
A memorial related to the wars. Memorial designed by A. W. Rancken. Unveiled 1949.
Photograph of the siteSuntionsuo
A defensive work recorded in the Finnish Heritage Agency's cultural environment register. Structures: trenches, dugouts, machine-gun nests, anti-tank obstacles, communication trenches, firing positions.
Photograph of the site
Kiteen taistelun 10.7.1941 muistomerkki
A memorial related to the wars. Unveiled 2004.
Photograph of the siteOulu, Sankarihautausmaa
A war cemetery where those who fell in the wars are buried. 160 graves. Memorial designed by Evert Porila. Unveiled 16.5.1923.
Photograph of the siteIlomantsin torjuntataistelun yleismuistomerkki
A memorial related to the wars. Unveiled 1981.
Photograph of the siteKlamilan kirkon alueen sankarivainajat 1939-1944
A memorial related to the wars. Memorial designed by Matti Klami. Unveiled 1990.
Photograph of the siteKoverhar 28
A defensive work recorded in the Finnish Heritage Agency's cultural environment register. Structures: trenches.
Photograph of the siteLahti, Lahden sankarihautausmaa
A war cemetery where those who fell in the wars are buried. 578 graves. Memorial designed by Wäinö Aaltonen. Unveiled 1952.
Photograph of the siteSankaripatsas, Sysmä (Talvi- ja jatkosodan muistomerkki)
A memorial related to the wars. Memorial designed by Lauri Leppänen. Unveiled 1951.
Photograph of the site
Partisaaniuhrien muistomerkki, Poromies Antti Karvosen muistomerkki
A memorial related to the wars. Unveiled 2017.
Photograph of the site
För Fosterlandet 1939-1944 - viiden sodissa kaatuneen muistomerkki
A memorial related to the wars.
Photograph of the site