The Mai Guba attack was a
sissi attack by the
Finnish forces during the
Continuation War on 18 January 1942. Its purpose was to cut the
Murmanni track and to destroy the station village of
Mai Guba together with its depots and stores.
[Kallio, Janne]
Ennennäkemättömiä kuvia Muurmannin-retkestä 1942 – materiaali löytyi suvun kotitilalta
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The attack was planned by
Erkki Raappana,
Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim
Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (, ; 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as comma ...
and
Aksel Airo and a decision to perform it was made in early January 1942. The attack was led by
Arnold Majewski
Karl Arnold Woldemar Majewski ( – 10 October 1942Castrén, Klaus, GENOS - journal of the Finnish genealogy society, issue #70/1999. Accessed on 24 June 2021.) was a legendary Finnish cavalry officer of Polish origin.
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, who came from a Polish cavalier{{clarify, date=July 2022 family.
The group selected to perform the attack was the 1st Battalion of the 10th Infantry Regiment of the 14th Division, led by
Eino Laisto, and the Frontier Jaeger Battalion 6, led by Major
Matti Murole. Participants in the attack also included an anti-aircraft team, a pioneer and communications group, a communications detachment of the army, a medical group, and companies for command and service. On 14 January a total of 1924 men and 268 horses with full equipment embarked on the mission.
''ruotuvaki.fi''. Accessed on 25 February 2020.
On their mission, the attack group burned down 92 houses, 12 full storage houses along with their equipment and a sawmill. Ten kilometres of the Murmanni track, telegraph and telephone wires, 11 railway carriages, 8 railway switches, a stable for a hundred horses and a railway bridge were destroyed.
References
Continuation War