Battle of Vuosalmi
| Battle of Vuosalmi | |||||||||
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| Part of Continuation War | |||||||||
Finnish soldier in the front line armed with a captured PPSh-41 submachine gun | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Finland | Soviet Union | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Hjalmar Siilasvuo Armas-Eino Martola Aarne Blick |
Vasily Shvetsov Georgy Anisimov Ivan Fadeev | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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30,000 men 25 assault guns 250 field artillery pieces (21 battalions) |
75,000–80,000 men 80–90 tanks or assault guns 450 artillery pieces | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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795 killed 4,976 wounded 354 missing 2 assault guns |
3,050 killed 11,750 wounded 250 missing 22,700 (whole 23rd Army) 60 tanks | ||||||||
The Battle of Vuosalmi (also known as the Battle of Äyräpää-Vuosalmi) – the main bulk of it – lasted from July 4 to July 17, 1944. It was fought during the Continuation War (1941–1944), a part of World War II, between Finland and the Soviet Union.