PIRKKO
(Teasing the encirclement of Hanko, Adolf Molnár)

(The island of Pirkko which is mentioned in the text, means without a doubt the island of Kallskäret)

(If there is differences in the name of the places in 1941 and today, italic text inside the closures has been used to indicate the name of the place today)

September 1941 to October 1941

- Before a major patrol went to the island of Pirkko, the island was already visited now and then by few smaller patrols. The island of Pirkko is about 400 meters long, but only 20 to 30 meters wide, it's like a sausage. Russians had named the island as Carrot and we on the other hand gave it a very improper name, which was changed to the maps of the staff. The old name however now and then reappeared, even when it was now officially called Pirkko.

- If one thinks that there is a line drawn from the Russian island base of Kronholm (Stora Järpholmen) to the nearest peninsula in the mainland and that this line is the first defensive line of the enemy which can be defended from both sides with machine guns, then the island of Pirkko was located about a one kilometer behind that line, inside a enemy territory.

- Through that invisible line, six canoes breakthrough one night, when the white and green flares were flying all around. There is a nice dugout in the northern tip of Pirkko. Two communication trenches connect this dugout to a machine gun and light machine gun position. In that dugout the patrol slept until morning. One of the positions was still unfinished and the construction work seemed to have been stopped just a week ago. That was a clear proof, how correct Major Lundström was, when he forbidden men to land to the island in the few previous weeks.

- The island itself contains a very coarse forest, which rises to the level of three meters. The forest area slopes to the southern tip and before that area, there is a short section, which does not contain any trees or bushes. Finally in the most southern tip, there is only few trees and bushes. That is why all of the observation positions were manned during the night, so that there would be no need to cross the open areas in daylight, which of course would have been very dangerous.

- The mining job for the structure 219 has been completed, but water has filled the whole structure completely.

- There is even fishes in the pond which has formed from the structure. Some local resident most likely has planted the fishes into the "pond".

- There is also some rusted iron items nearby. These might be parts from the equipment, which was used during the construction.

- Additionally next to the structure 219 is a dugout remains, which is in a good condition. Similar dugout can be found nearby of the Skogby area. There is a few pictures from that dugout in the gallery which shows the fire positions.

- Doorway into the dugout.

- There is a quite big concrete square in the front part of the dugout. It could be a base for a gun, although no bolts for mounting the gun are visible in the possible base.

- The front part of the dugout.