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Originally Posted by STEED
One good thing came out of this for Finland because they would not seal off Leningrad from their end they were spared being over run by the Russia at the end of the war.
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Oh, most definitely. Had Finland taken part in the siege, I doubt the Red Army would have been ordered to stop after the summer battles of 1944.
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Originally Posted by sublynx
Cool thread, a huge effort 
IIRC, I-18 is a Polikarpov I-16 type 18. |
Thanks, sublynx. I sometimes think "Why did I start it?!"
The I-18 is likely a typo in the unit war diary. The variants were typically not mentioned and often even nicknames of planes/tanks were used in the combat reports. For example the I-153 was called 'Tsaikka' and T-34 'Sotka' (='Duck').