Mannerheim Line

The Mannerheim line was not constructed at great expense.

The Soviet advance was stopped at the Mannerheim Line.

The heavy artillery support allowed the Soviet forces to breach the Mannerheim Line.

He visited the front line near the Summa sector of the Mannerheim line.

It also saw combat in the Winter War against the Mannerheim Line fortifications.

The offensive resumed shortly afterwards, and had to pass through the former Mannerheim Line, reinforced between 1941 and 1944.

For example the breakthrough of the Mannerheim Line was represented as "legendary" performance by the Red Army.

He commanded the massive artillery assault that allowed the Soviet breakthrough along the Mannerheim Line in 1940.

By 6 December, all the Finnish covering forces had withdrawn to the Mannerheim Line.

The vast majority of the Mannerheim Line was merely composed of trenches and other field fortifications.

Army to withdraw from Viipuri and form new a defensive line to approximately the same place where Mannerheim Line had been.

Subsequently, the myth of the "heavily fortified" Mannerheim Line entered official Soviet war history and some western sources.

Furthermore, the Soviet literature argued that the Mannerheim Line was built on Germany's initiative and using its experts.

During the Winter War, he was responsible for penetrating the Mannerheim Line as commander of the 7th Army.

Only five rifle divisions were initially sent to assault the Mannerheim Line and piecemeal commitment of reinforcements did not achieve any effect.

Despite these defensive preparations, even the most fortified section of the Mannerheim Line had only one reinforced concrete bunker per kilometre.

By that time, so many breaches had occurred in the Mannerheim Line that the reports concerning them were virtually disregarded.

Semyon Timoshenko was chosen Army Commander to break the Mannerheim Line.

Only in February 1940 did the Soviet forces manage to penetrate the Mannerheim Line across the isthmus, strength of which is often exaggerated.

The fortifications of the Salpa Line were much stronger than those of the Mannerheim Line.

The Mannerheim Line and VKT-line were located along the northern shore of its southern armlet.

The up-armored T-28e tanks were used to break through the Finnish Mannerheim Line, ending the Winter War in 1940.

In the first two weeks of the month, the Finns retreat to the Mannerheim line, an outmoded defensive line just inside the southern border with Russia.

For most of the war it defended the Mannerheim Line on the northern side of the River Vuoksi against Soviet attacks.

In mid-February, 1940, Soviet troops finally managed to broke through the Mannerheim Line, and Finland sought an armistice.