Battle or uprising · 1944
The failed landing at Vintri
On the night of 12 October 1944, four days after the night battle of Tehumardi, the Red Army tried to take the Sõrve peninsula from the sea. Men of the 300th Rifle Regiment of the 7th Estonian Rifle Division, under regiment commander Ilmar Paul, landed on the beach between Hindu and Vintri villages on Saaremaa. The landing failed. More than 200 Estonians were killed and 215 were taken prisoner. According to the historian Peeter Larin, who studied the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps in detail, 745 men went into the landing and 575 of them never came back. The pin, on the shore between the two villages, is approximate.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
12. oktoobri ööl 1944, neli päeva pärast Tehumardi öölahingut, püüdis Punaarmee Sõrve poolsaart merelt vallutada. 7. Eesti Laskurdiviisi 300. Laskurpolgu mehed polguülem Ilmar Pauli juhtimisel maabusid Saaremaal Hindu ja Vintri küla vahelisel rannal. Dessant ebaõnnestus. Hukkus üle 200 eestlase ja vangi võeti 215 meest. 8. Eesti Laskurkorpuse sõjateed põhjalikult uurinud ajaloolase Peeter Larini andmeil läks dessanti 745 meest, kellest 575 tagasi ei tulnud. Märk kahe küla vahelisel rannal on ligikaudne.