INSPECTING THE 19th AND 21st FIELD BATTERIES, PART IV

(History of the Hanko Group, T-22005, Military Archives of Finland)

17th of June 1941

- I also inspected the other equipment that the batteries had and noticed that it was nearly non-existing. Everything was missing from the tents to the signalling equipments. And as I additionally noticed that both of the heavy batteries contained only thirty men, the future certainly didn’t look too bright now that the war was just about to start. But we had to try, because there was no other way. I gave an intense training program to commanders of the batteries and promised to myself, to come and check that it is done.

Captain T. Louhivuori

- The structure 408 and a view towards inland.

- The mining job seems to have been nearly completed here.

- The small stones around the position again reveal this one even from a distance to a sharp eyes.

- The whole mined structure seen with a view towards the planned firing direction. This structure, which would have been a machine gun nest, would have covered the shores of the Möön island, making it rather difficult for enemy troops trying to attack from the island to the mainland.

- In the bottom of the structure is just a little bit of water.