campaign, notable, interwar and Second World War
Operation Arctic Fox
Operation Arctic Fox was a campaign fought in 1941 at Salla, in what is now Finland. Its exact site is not recorded; the atlas places it at Salla. It was part of World War II, which ran from 1939 to 1945. The recorded result: Stalemate.
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Where it sits in World War II
Record
| Date | 1941 (year precision) to 1941 | |
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| Place | Salla, Finland 66.831N, 28.670E | |
| Kind | Campaign, interwar and Second World War | |
| Strength | XXXVI Corps; 169th Infantry Division; Finnish 6th Division; Panzer-Abteilung 211; III Corps; Finnish 3rd Division; Panzer-Abteilung 40 | 14th Army; 104th Rifle Division; 122nd Rifle Division; 1st Tank Division; 88th Rifle Division (reinforcements); Grivnik brigade(reinforcements); 1st Polar Rifle Division; 7th Army; 54th Rifle Division |
| Casualties and losses | XXXVI Corps: 9,463 men; III Corps: unknown | Heavy casualties |
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Nearest engagements
- Battle of Salla 1939, 0.3 km NW
- Battles of Kiestinki 1942, 176 km SE
- Simo Skirmish 1916, 177 km SW
- Battle of Suomussalmi 1939, 216 km S
- Battle of Raate Road 1940, 223 km S
In the same war
- Before: Defense of Borisov 1941
- After: Battle of Palmyra 1 July 1941
- All 1155 engagements of World War II
Elsewhere in 1941
- Attack on Pearl Harbor United States
- Siege of Sevastopol Russia
- Philippines Campaign Philippines
- Battle of Hong Kong People's Republic of China
- Battle of Guam United States
Operation Arctic Fox is one of 4,429 engagements of the 20th century in the atlas and one of 121 in present-day Finland.
Sources
Identity, coordinates, dates and the war from Wikidata Q5251995, released under CC0. Result, belligerents, commanders, strength and casualties from the infobox of the English Wikipedia article Operation Arctic Fox, revision 1378786321, read 2026-11-15, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0; the article's text is not reproduced here. Present-day country and state from Natural Earth. Dates before 1582 follow the Julian calendar as recorded.