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    Salpa Line (Finnish: Salpalinja, literally Latch line; Swedish: Salpalinjen), or its official name, Suomen Salpa (Finland's Latch), is a bunker line on...
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  • The Salpa Line Museum (Finnish: Salpalinja-museo, Russian: Музей линии "Салпа") was established and opened in 1987 by the municipality of Miehikkälä and...
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  • Salpa may refer to: Salpa (genus), a genus of tunicates in the family Salpidae (singular salp) Salema porgy (Sarpa salpa) Salon Palloilijat, association...
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    sapper teams or small smoke screens, and had no easily targetable objects. Salpa Line Karelian Fortified Region Linea P (Spain) Edwards 2006, pp. 111–112 Geust...
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    VT-line was breached at Kuuterselkä by the Soviet 21st Army as part of the Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. VKT-line Karelian Fortified Region Salpa Line Moisala...
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    Mannerheim Line, Finland (1939–1940) K-W Line, Belgium (1939) Salpa Line, Finland (1940) Gothic Line, Italy Winter Line (Gustav, Bernhardt and Hitler Lines)...
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    VKT-linjen) was a Finnish defensive line. VT-line Karelian Fortified Region Salpa Line Leskinen, Jari; Juutilainen, Antti (ed.): The Little Giant of the Continuation...
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    discovered a deposit at Ylämaa in south-eastern Finland, while building the Salpa Line fortifications there in 1940. The quarrying of spectrolite began after...
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    World War II Salpa Line, The last fortified defence line of Finland against the Soviet Union in World War II Iron Curtain, dividing line through Europe...
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  • are two other attractions related to the Engineer corps of Finland: the Salpa Line Museum in Miehikkälä and the Bunker Museum [fi] in Virolahti. The history...
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