3 March 1943
The city of Joensuu is bombed twice during the night, two people are killed.
Finnish daily losses: 23
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4 March 1943
The German liason officer Waldemar Erfurth again asks Marshal Mannerheim to continue attacks towards the Murmansk railroad. Mannerheim's reply is: "I'm done attacking. I've lost enough men already."
Karelian Isthmus: "Supported by artillery and mortars, one of our combat patrols breached inside an enemy base on the south side of the Ohta road. The patrol destroyed a large rock/log machine gun bunker and a living dug-out. After this the patrol continued to storm the trenches, causing estimated 35 KIA to the enemy. Own losses 3 KIA, 6 WIA."
Finnish daily losses: 23
Combat engineers storming an enemy bunker during training. (Aunus)
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5 March 1943
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 8
Laying ice mines. (Kuuttilahti)
Ice mines:
http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/landmines2.htm
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6 March 1943
Maaselkä: Finns destroy six enemy dug-outs near Poventsa.
(The HQ war diary makes no mention of this. -D
Finnish daily losses: 11
Young boy prepares for his school's skiing competition. (Aunus)
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7 March 1943
Josef Stalin becomes the Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Finnish daily losses: 12
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8 March 1943
Commander of the MTB "Syöksy", CWO Toimi Ovaskainen ("Wolf of Gulf of Finland") is awarded the Mannerheim Cross.
Finnish daily losses: 21
Pfc. Gummerus. (Svir/17.D.)
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9 March 1943
No entry.
Finnish daily losses: 13
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Missing 2 March added to last entry.