Talk:Bombing of Helsinki in World War II

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[edit] Käpylä

Can be transliterated "Place of Cones". In 1939 the most northern city part of Helsinki, located six kilometre north of city centre. Founded in 1921 as garden city part with two store wooden houses which still exist today. In 1939 served by tram line K (Käpylä) from the Market Square. Also by railway station six kilometre north from main railway station. The Olympic Village built for Helsinki 1940 Olympic Games was built there north of Koskelantie.

The main AA gunnery battery were located at Taivaskallio / Himmelberg (Sky Rock ), the highest place in Helsinki (59 metre a.s.l.) just north of the end of the tramway line.

Four out of six 88 mm AA gun positions are (without guns) preserved there at the top of the rock. Also two main AA ammunition storages covered in granite rock some 15 metres below the AA gun positions are still there. The ammunition was lifted to gun positions by electric lift and protected by 15 metre hard granite rock, a cover which was impossible to destroy by any weapon used during WW2. Taivaskallio was the main AA defence battery in Helsinki AA belt with additonal batteries at Lauttasaari and Santahamina.

There was also in 1944 two beton pedestals built to Pasila rock to protect the Pasila shunting yard which was the main railway freight yard in Helsinki. These had lighter AA guns.

It should be mentioned that Marshal Mannerheim, the Finnish C in C arrived from his headquarters located in Mikkeli / St. Michel with his special train to meet the Finnish Government by the time of the second bombing to Helsinki. His train was directed (thanks to effctive Finnish intelligence) to Kela army depot and he continued from Kela by car to Helsinki.

JN

[edit] United States Embassy in Helsinki

During the Helsinki bombings in February 1944 the US Embassy personel watched closely the bombings in the Embassy in Kaivopuisto and Military Attache reported the poor results direct via Stockholm, Sweden to Washington. Because of the secret cooperation with Finnish intelligence service the real bombing results were not transferred to the Soviets. A little known piece of military history.

JN

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