409 fortification card

*Structure number: 409*
*Structure*	Machine gun nest.
*Sector center line*	125 degrees.
*State of readiness (1942)*	Mined except sewer.
*Remark (1942)*
*Remark (1955)*	Cannot be found from the map and thus cannot be found from the terrain. Mined except sewer.
*Note*	Even more strange remark from the year 1955 than in the fortification card for the structure 407. The army personnel clearly have had the fortification cards in their use, because they have copied the comment from the 1942 fortification card to their remarks, but why they have not found the structure is a good question. One and most likely option is that this particular structure disappeared from the landscape between the years 1942 to 1955. Now in 2006 there is clear signs that there has been a mining job performed in the area, as stones are all over the hill, but the actual mined structure cannot be found anymore. One option is that there is a big mistake with these fortification cards and this card actually gives information about the structure 408, which according to the map symbols was planned to be a machine gun nest like structure 409. That structure is mined and can be found from the area. If that would be correct, then the sector center line is all wrong, as the firing direction for structure 408 is about 250 degrees.

Dated: 15.9.1942 & 28.3.1955

- The first inventory in the Harparskog-line was made in 1942, when the Finnish Defence Forces made the first fortification cards for the structures in Harparskog-line. In 1955 the structures in the defensive line were inspected once again and at that time, description part for the original fortification cards were made. The description from 1955 gives very detailed information about the structures, as there's even a full inventory what should be in the structures and what is missing.

- Notes are based on my own personal observations in the defensive line during the years 2005 & 2006.