6 January 1943
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 18
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7 January 1943
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 14
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8 January 1943
Enemy planes strike Nurmoila airfield using rockets for the first time.
Finnish daily losses: 11
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9 January 1943
Major-General Winell, Commander of the 8.Division and a Knight of the Mannerheim Cross, dies of a heart attack while attending to his son's burial in Helsinki.
Finnish daily losses: 12
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Wood carving by Medical Officer Jaakko Ketola. (Karhumäki, Field Hospital 33)
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10 January 1943
Soviet offensive against the encircled German Sixth Army at Stalingrad begins.
Finnish daily losses: 10
![](http://i.imgur.com/1pmLlWAm.jpg)
View inside a dug-out on IR44's sector. (Lotinapelto, Svir)
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11 January 1943
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 17
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12 January 1943
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 9