Lieutenant-Colonel Pajari takes command of the Finnish forces in the Tolvajärvi area.
Photo: SA-KUVA
Finnish troops repulse first Soviet offensive at Kollaa
- Taipale: by evening Finnish troops have beaten back the first Russian offensive.
- Ladoga Karelia: during the night Soviet troops achieve combat contact with the Finnish positions on the River Kollaanjoki.
- Ilomantsi: Finnish troops in the Ilomantsi sector fall back to Möhkö and overnight to Kallioniemi ferry. They begin a defensive action.
- Northern Finland: Commander-in-Chief Mannerheim reinforces the troops around Suomussalmi with sections of the 9th Division commanded by Colonel Siilasvuo.
- Soviet troops take the parish village at Suomussalmi.
- Ladoga Karelia: Finnish troops at Kollaa beat back the first Soviet offensive.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Pajari takes command of the Finnish forces in the Tolvajärvi area.Finnish troops launch active countermeasures.
- Northern Finland: the Russian 122nd Division launches its main offensive against Finnish positions on the Kairala parallel.The defending Finnish battalion cannot hold. The detachment pulls back to the parish village at Salla.
- The three largest American radio networks have sent their own correspondents to Helsinki.One is the journalist Warren Irving, who is sending a radio commentary from Helsinki to the USA.