image

 Soviet tanks in a “wagon train” circle on the perimeter of mottis at Lemetti after a Finnish counteroffensive—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

 Remains of an ambushed Soviet column north of Suomussalmi village—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

 Russian 163d Division convoy after a Finnish attack in central forests—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

 Soviet armor ambushed at the easternmost end of Forty-fourth Division’s motti, near Raate village—Military History Museum, Helsinki

image

   Downed Soviet SB-2 bomber in a forest—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

   One of the Finnish Air Force’s thirty French Morane-Saulnier 406 interceptors landing in the snow—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

   Bristol Blenheim taxiing on a forest air strip. The swastika was an ancient Finnish symbol of good luck—Military History Museum, Helsinki

image

   Finnish soldiers sheltered from bombardment preceding the Russian attack on the Mannerheim Line in early February 1940—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

   Russian T-28 tank, with a 76 mm. gun in its main turret—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

   Finnish artillery during the defense of the Karelian Isthmus—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

   Armored shield welded to ski runners, issued to Russian units—Military History Museum, Helsinki

image

   Landscape of the once-wooded Summa sector, showing effects of the Russian bombardment—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

   Ancient citadel of Viipuri, under fire and burning on March 13, 1940, the last day it flew the Finnish flag—Photographic Center of the General Headquarters, Helsinki

image

   Author at the ruins of a Mannerheim Line bunker south of the Helsinki-Leningrad railroad, in 1964—Author’s photo