Yleisradion toimittaja Tauno Majuri haastattelee Aarne "Marokon kauhu" Juutilaista 19. joulukuuta 1939 Kollaalla.
Aarne Juutilainen (1904-1976) toimi talvisodassa komppaniapäällikkönä Jalkaväkirykmentti 34:ssä Laatokan pohjoispuolella. Haastattelussa joulukuussa 1939 Juutilainen -silloinen luutnantti - kertoo kolme viikkoa aiemmin alkaneen talvisodan taisteluista.
Kollaan rintama kesti talvisodan loppuun asti.
Finnish war-time radio conducted an interview with Aarne Juutilainen on Kollaa. He recalled how in one day in December they stopped five Soviet tanks.
"Well, we haven't had anything difficult, or anything that strange. It makes me laugh a little, because, was it the fourteenth day when five Soviet tanks were destroyed. When one stopped, three of our boys went with bayonets to rattle open the tank hatch. The Russians hung on and held it shut. When the boys took the points of their bayonets off the tank hatch, the Russians opened the hatch and threw a hand grenade".
The men flinched, but fortunately the hand grenade did not go off. The hatch opened twice more and two hand grenades popped out. However, they too flew far enough away that no one was wounded. A fourth grenade flew through the hatch, but now a Finnish hand grenade also fell in.
The Russians didn't throw any more," Juutilainen said.
Some of the tanks had surviving men who were taken as prisoners. One of them tried to escape right in front of Juutilainen but was struck with the end of a Colt pistol and fell to his knees.
27 мар 2022
