Battle of Tankavaara

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battle military engagement

The Battle of Tankavaara was a World War II engagement in northern Finland in 1944, where Finnish forces fought retreating German troops during the Lapland War.

Statements (30)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	battle → military engagement →
belligerent	Finnish Army → German Army →
combatantsSide1	Finland →
combatantsSide2	Nazi Germany →
conflict	Lapland War →
conflictContext	Finnish effort to expel German forces from Finland →
conflictType	Finnish–German conflict →
countryInvolved	Finland → Germany →
date	1944 →
endDate	1944-10-28 →
followedBy	continued Finnish advance in Lapland →
front	Northern Front of World War II →
historicalPeriod	20th century →
location	Finland → Lapland → Sodankylä → Tankavaara →
natureOfEngagement	ground battle →
opponentDuringRetreat	German 20th Mountain Army →
partOf	World War II →
partOfCampaign	Lapland War → surface form: "Finnish offensive in Lapland"
precededBy	German withdrawal from central Lapland →
primaryObjective	to dislodge retreating German forces →
relatedEvent	German retreat from Lapland →
result	Finnish victory →
startDate	1944-10-26 →
theaterOfWar	Arctic theatre of World War II → surface form: "Arctic theater of World War II"

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lapland War → notableBattle → Battle of Tankavaara →