COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF'S ORDER OF THE DAY, N.O. 34,
PART I

(The glory of our days - Finnish war 1939 - 1940 with pictures and communiqué from headquarters) 

14th of March 1940 

Soldiers of the glorious Finnish army!

- Peace has been concluded between our country and the Soviet Union, harsh peace, which has ceded to Soviet Russia nearly every battlefield on which you have shed your blood on behalf of everything we hold dear and sacred. You did not want war; you loved peace, work and progress; but you were forced into a struggle in which you have done great deeds, deeds that will shine for centuries in the pages of history. 

- More than fifteen thousand of you, who went to war, will never again see your homes and how many those are who have lost for ever their ability to work. But you have also given hard blows and now as two hundred thousand of our enemies lie on the snowdrifts, gazing with broken eyes at our starry sky, the fault is not yours. You did not hate them or wish them evil; you merely followed the demanding law of war: kill or be killed.

- Soldiers! I have fought on many battlefields, but never have I seen warriors like you. I am as proud of you as though you were my own children; l am as proud of the man from the Northern arctic hills as of the son of Pohjanmaa plains, of the Karelian forests, the hills of Savo, the fertile fields of Häme and Satakunta, the humming leafy birch copses of Uusimaa and Varsinais-Suomi. I am as proud of the sacrifice given by the child of a lowly cottage as of those of the wealthy. I thank all of you, officers, non-commissioned officers and men, but I wish specially to stress the self-sacrificing bravery of our officers of the reserve, their sense of duty and the cleverness with which they have fulfilled a task that was not originally theirs. Thus theirs has been the greatest sacrifice in this war in proportion to their numbers, but it was made joyfully and with an unflinching devotion to duty.

Mannerheim

- Trench line leads to the position.

- Structure 402 which was planned to be and was a machine gun nest, is a much more recognizable from the terrain than structure 401 was. 402 also seem to have been a lot bigger construction.

- The remains are very recognizable especially during the spring and autumn.

- Trench line.

- In front of the previous positions is a small scar, which contains the observation and fire control nest. The scar is shown in the fortification map. Basically the position 402 was capable of firing to the both sides of the scar, rendering the need for the structure 401 nearly useless. The observation and fire control nest from a distance looks just a pile of rocks.

- The same observation and fire control nest seen from an opposite direction.

- Closer look reveals a position made from stones.

- Outline of the observation and fire control nest.

- The view from the scar and from the observation and fire control nest is a great one and even Hanko Cape is visible from here.

- The main positions seen from the scar. The positions are located right in the tree line and very close to the shoreline.

- The scar can be walked by the "stone bridge", which has been constructed here, perhaps by the troops in the summer of 1941.