Petsamo
Americannoun
noun
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For eight years the Finns, their territory reduced 12% by Russia's annexation of Karelia and Petsamo province, have worked in shipyards, lumber camps, factories and foundries to meet the harsh Russian levy.
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Russia to get the port of Petsamo, Rumania to get Transylvania.
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Instead of the tip of the Ribachi Peninsula, commanding the approach to far-northern Petsamo, the Russians had now taken Petsamo itself and enough surrounding territory to cut off Finland from the Arctic, restore the Tsarist frontier with Norway.
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With Petsamo's nickel mines threatened by the Russian drive and a Lapland winter making up, the German determination to stick around was beginning to cool.
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He further pointed out that the Nazi air strength is widely dispersed: Air Fleet One in eastern Germany, Air Fleet Two under Marshal Albert Kesselring operating in northern France and the Lowlands, Air Fleet Three under Marshal Hugo Sperrle, operating in western France from bases between Brest and the Spanish frontier, Air Fleet Five, under General Hans Jurgen Stumpff, operating in bases from The Netherlands all the way to Petsamo in Finland, two other air fleets based on Vienna and Rumania, and an independent unit in Italy.
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