18 May 1944
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 19
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19 May 1944
Finnish bombers struck the Mergino airfield in the Svir direction. Due to poor visibility caused by heavy AA fire, damages could not be assessed.
Finnish daily losses: 26
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20 May 1944
Forty-two Finnish bombers hit storage areas around Alehovitsna which caused a number of secondary explosions and fires.
Finnish daily losses: 20
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21 May 1944
Major-General Jussi Sihvo's 10th Division takes front responsibility in the Valkeasaari sector on the Western Karelian Isthmus.
Finnish daily losses: 13
View from a machine gun position. (Siiranmäki)
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22 May 1944
Soviet 21.Army begins transporting artillery and tanks to the Isthmus.
Finnish fighters spot a 500 truck column on the Soviet side of the border.
Finnish daily losses: 13
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23 May 1944
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 14
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24 May 1944
Finnish intelligence estimates that the enemy is ready for a large scale offensive within two weeks. Field commanders are notified of this, but soon after the memo is recalled and a new, more ambiguous one is sent to the commanders instead.
Lieutenant-General Airo, by whose orders the memo is changed, believes that even if there was to be a larger offensive, Finnish positions would hold.
Finnish daily losses: 29
Patrol in the Tsirkka-Kemijoki area where Spring has yet to arrive.