20 January 1943
Maaselkä: Finns man the Mentsinsaari island on lake Seesjärvi.
Finnish daily losses: 13
Battalion commander Major Koskela's dugout. (Rukajärvi)
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21 January 1943
Maaselkä: Finnish snipers have killed 52 enemy soldiers between 11.-20. January.
Finnish daily losses: 16
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22 January 1943
Report on enemy air losses in 1942:
- 357 planes shot down by fighters
- 101 planes shot down by anti-air
- 5 planes destroyed on the ground
- 18 planes captured
- 2 planes shot down by infantry weapons fire
- 1 plane shot down by the navy
Total: 484 planes
The Finnish Air Force has also sunk six enemy submarines and further ten submarines (
Not clear if total or on top of six -D) in cooperation with the Finnish Navy.
Finnish daily losses: 19
75 K/97 "Marianne" field gun at fort "Järisevä" on the Taipale peninsula.
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23 January 1943
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 15
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24 January 1943
Rukajärvi: 14. Division's patrol comes across a large enemy partisan group near Kiimasjärvi.
Finnish daily losses: 6
Captured Komsomolets T-20 tractor in Varkaus.
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25 January 1943
Rukajärvi: 14.D reports the partisans have retreated north over lake Nuokkijärvi.
Finnish daily losses: 16
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26 January 1943
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 12
Two Russian deserters from a Soviet penal unit. (Uhtua)
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A. Auvinen
Private Auvinen (tag# 20684) was born in 1923 in Viipuri. He was an apprentice machinist before being drafted to service in 1941. On the 22th of January a sniper's bullet hit him in the head in the Lempaala area killing him instantly. He was 20 years old. Not married.