I was born and lived in Helsinki half my life so i chose it. Helsinki is the capital of Finland so it was heavily bombed during the war, it was also the most heavily defended target by Finnish AA-units. It had important industry, military and goverment buildings to protect. From the first day of Winter War, Nov 30 1939 to the end of Continunation War, September 19, 1944, Helsinki was bombed over 50 times. In February 1944 Soviet bomber command got an order to destroy Helsinki. In three days over 700 planes dropped some 20.000 bombs, scale comparable to Dresden. Do to the effective AA tactics, only 799 bombs hit populated areas of the city. Casualties during the whole war were "only" 350 dead and 1000 wounded. Some 500 buildings were destroyed or damaged.
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