Subordinated to the
II Corps, the division participated in the
Finnish invasion of Ladoga Karelia on the northwestern shore of
Lake Ladoga under the command of
Colonel Aarne Blick. During the initial invasion, it took part in an encirclement of Soviet forces along the northern shore of Lake Ladoga, reaching the shore of the lake on 7 August. During a subsequent reorganization of the Finnish forces in the region, it was subordinated to the Finnish
I Corps, participating soon after in a pincer movement aimed at the capture of
Sortavala. While Soviet forces were largely able to escape encirclement, the town was captured by Finnish forces on 15 August. In June and July 1944, the division suffered heavy casualties during the Soviet
Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive under the command of
Major General Ilmari Martola, who had taken command in 1942. Part of the
IV Corps, it was located on the western
Karelian Isthmus. It first fell back to the
VT-line, where it held off Soviet attacks for four days before being ordered to retreat from those positions on the evening of 12 June. The division eventually took up positions on the
VKT-line in the
Äyräpää-
Vuosalmi sector as part of the
III Corps. Despite temporal breach of the Finnish line at Vuosalmi, the Finns stabilized the situation and held the VKT Line of defenses. Actions in the sector quieted down, with both sides settling for trench warfare in mid-July. The war came to an end with the signing of the
Moscow Armistice on 19 August 1944. ==Notes==