Helsinki Malmi airfield random pics

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Originally Posted by Kari Lumppio

Picture 7 I would say is more likely from July 3th, 1941. The smoke column comes from Malmi town/railway station (direction, at least). On the day at 14.00 o'clock Finnish time two Soviet I-153 strafed the airfield and the hills around plus Malmi town. At Malmi town a chemical factory was set ablaze and burned to ground. Source for this is war diary of Malmi tower or personal diary of a air traffic controller. IIRC held at Helsinki city archive? I have only copies received from a friend.

Could be that one too because the direction fits to both incidents,
I guess we will never be sure which one.
(Funny thing is that my parents still live only 100m away from Koller´s crash site.)

Originally Posted by Mirek Wawrzynski

FW 200, I think too, it was done during Hitler visit in Finland too.

Small correction, Hitler visited Immola not Malmi. (It was 6th of June)
Mannerheim took off from Malmi and returned 27th of June.
If you look at the video you can see that it has rained and concrete tiles are all wet.
In a pic, sun has started to shine but tiles are still partially wet.
So that is why I think it is taken just after Mannerheims visit to Germany.