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During the Continuation War, Soviet paratroopers made hundreds of destruction missions behind Finnish lines. Paratroopers employed Finnish units, and soldiers and military police were also lost in paratroopers. In January 1943, a paratrooper patrol was spotted in Villavaara, Säämäjärvi. This paratrooper patrol had crossed the roads from south to north about four kilometers west of Villavaara station. The paratroopers had mined the railway in Villavaara the previous night. An Ingrian man who was part of the paratrooper group reported to the Villavaara stationmaster on the morning of January 11. The man said that he was part of an eight-man paratrooper group. The man reported that in addition to the Ingrian man, the patrol included one woman, Vera, and six more men. The members of the paratrooper group had been trained in Soroka in December 1942 and had been dropped from an airplane north of Kutisma on December 29. Their accommodation had been a forest hut for two weeks. It was located 15 km north of Villavara, on the shore of Tseringalampi. The paratroopers had received food, ammunition and skis on January 8. The food had been stored near the drop site, 4 km north of the hut. A man went to show the railway where the paratroopers had mined. In addition to the military police, the patrol of the Kuismanen Onni Määttänen unit and two Jaeger detachments were called out to follow this paratrooper patrol. I have processed the black and white photographs shown in the video into color images using image processing programs. #Paratrooper #MilitaryPolice #Jääkäri #RemotePatrol #Osku #Säämäjärvi #Mundjärvi #