The offensive resumed shortly afterwards, and had to pass through the former Mannerheim Line, reinforced between 1941 and 1944.
He saw action in the Winter War against Finland, in which he made over 30 combat missions and bombed the Mannerheim Line; after the war was finished on 13 March 1940, he volunteered to stay at the front.
Taipale at the Mannerheim Line, then approximately 20 kilometers from the Soviet border, became known for heavy fighting during the Winter War, and was held by the Finnish forces until the end of that war, when all of the Karelian Isthmus was ceded to the Soviet Union and had to be evacuated in haste.
The Mannerheim Line and VKT-line were located along the northern shore of its southern armlet.
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The Finns managed to hold their defensive position at the eastern end of the Mannerheim Line, close to the shore of Lake Ladoga, till the end of the war.