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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime” Or view Homer’s posting history .)
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Day 55 of the Winter War, January 23, 1940

Ladoga Karelia: three battalions of Group Talvela launch a counteroffensive on the River Aittojoki.
Photo: SA-KUVA

Finnish troops repulse enemy offensive in Taipale

Ladoga Karelia: three battalions of Group Talvela launch a counteroffensive on the River Aittojoki.
Central Isthmus: heavier than normal enemy shelling in the Summa and Lähde sectors.
An enemy detachment of company strength attacks the islands of Suursaari and Rumakoira in Lake Muolaanjärvi. The Finnish defenders repulse the assault.
Northern Finland: Colonel Siilasvuo arrives in Kuhmo with the staff of the 9th Division and settles into the Jämäs barracks.
Group Ilomäki is placed under command of the 9th Division.
North Karelia: 11 enemy aircraft bomb Nurmes, killing 21 people and injuring 39.
Southeast Isthmus and Ladoga Karelia: Finnish troops repulse the enemy offensives in Taipale and on the northeast side of Lake Ladoga.
The enemy has already dropped 6,700 bombs behind the Finnish lines.
Northern Finland: a Finnish Gladiator fighter is hit by an explosive shell, bursts into flames and crashes behind enemy lines 3 kilometres west of Märkäjärvi. The pilot, Swedish volunteer Second Lieutenant Johan Sjökvist, is killed.
Finland's employers recognize the trade union movement. The Central Organization of Finnish Trade Unions (SAK) now has 80,000 members.
The author Frans Emil Sillanpää donates his Nobel Gold Medal to the defence of Finland.

Wow!!!!
Those were some pretty expensive apartments at Tudor City.

$50/month (remember those were silver dollars back then.)

At today’s prices those one bedroom apartments were renting for around $850/month.

A 2-bdr apartment was going for about $1250. Ouch!