27 January 1943
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 14
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28 January 1943
Maaselkä: Soviet 33. Ski Brigade attacks to Mentsinsaari island across lake Seesjärvi.
Generalfeldmarschall Keitel again asks Mannerheim through a letter to continue attacks towards the Murman railway.
Finnish daily losses: 22
Ski shooting competition on 8.division's area. (Olonets)
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29 January 1943
US ambassador Standley and Molotov discuss in Moscow about the possibilities of getting Finland out of the war.
Maaselkä: "Enemy detachment's (strength approx. two platoons) attack against one of our bases on Mentsinsaari island has been repelled."
Finnish daily losses: 17
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30 January 1943
Rukajärvi/14.D.: Attack by a battalion size enemy group against Finnish positions at 2130hrs last night was repelled everywhere, but at base "Mountain" where the enemy managed to get through Finnish obstacles and inside the base. By 0900hrs, the enemy at base "Mountain" was driven off causing them a loss of 106 men + 20 POWs.
Finnish daily losses: 24
Dug-out recaptured by the Finns during fighting in the Rukajärvi area.
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31 January 1943
The German Sixth Army's southern pocket surrenders at Stalingrad.
Finnish daily losses: 11
View towards the enemy from base "Fingertip". (Siestarjoki)
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1 February 1943
Maaselkä: Finnish snipers have shot 46 enemies between 21.-31. January.
Finnish daily losses: 21
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2 February 1943
The remaining German forces surrender at Stalingrad.
Finnish daily losses: 17
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A.M. Ekbom
Private Ekbom (tag# 996416) of I/IR 46, born in 1922 in Kemiö, was wounded by a shot to the head as he was on guard duty in the Lempaala area on February 2. He died in Field Hospital 40 on the same day at the age of 21. He was not married.