Office of the Historian

760d.61/510: Telegram

The Minister in Finland (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State

Helsinki, November 30, 1939.
[Received November 30—5:20 a.m.]

370. One Soviet two-motored plane passed over Helsinki 9:20 o’clock this morning low altitude, fired on by anti-aircraft artillery, departed after 15 minutes. At 10:20 a flight of nine Soviet light [Page 1007] bombers attacked fortresses in Bay of Helsinki, met by anti-aircraft fire, departed 10:25.87

Schoenfeld
  1. For further reports by the American Minister in Finland of subsequent Soviet air raids on Helsinki during the first days of Soviet aggression, see Department of State Bulletin, December 2, 1939, pp. 610–611. On December 3, 1939, the Minister reported the officers and employees of the Legation who had been withdrawn to Bad Grankulla, 17 kilometers from Helsinki; ibid., December 9, 1939, p. 649.↩