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Simo Häyhä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname The White Death (Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized: Belaya smert’), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union.
The legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä, nicknamed the "White Death", would see his first battle on the Kollaa front. He is credited with at least 505 confirmed kills during the war, according to Finnish military records. [3]
Simo Häyhä: 1905–2002 1939–1940 A Finnish sniper during the 1939–40 Winter War known as the "White Death" from his habit of lying in the snow wearing snow camouflage and a white face mask, waiting for a target to appear.
Simo Häyhä, the legendary Finnish sniper, known as "the White Death" in Finnish wartime propaganda. [162] The strength of the Red Army north of Lake Ladoga in Ladoga Karelia surprised the Finnish Headquarters. Two Finnish divisions were deployed there, the 12th Division led by Lauri Tiainen and the 13th Division led by Hannu Hannuksela.
Already as a young boy, he got his first contact with the war in 1918, participating in the Finnish Civil War by loading machine gun belts on the white side. [4] After the war, a still minor age Juutilainen tried to volunteer for the Aunus expedition , but the recruiters found that Juutilainen had forged his parents' consent to the expedition.
The Continuation War, [f] also known as the Second Soviet-Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II.It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice.
Simo Häyhä was finally hit by an explosive round in an anti-sniper campaign run by the Soviets, putting him into an 11-day coma. [13] Detective Comics #38 was published (cover date April), featuring the first appearance of Batman's sidekick, Robin. [14] Born: Willie Stargell, baseball player, in Earlsboro, Oklahoma (d. 2001)
Lauri Allan Törni (28 May 1919 – 18 October 1965), later known as Larry Alan Thorne, was a Finnish-born soldier who fought under three flags: as a Finnish Army officer in the Winter War and the Continuation War ultimately gaining a rank of captain; as a Waffen-SS captain (under the alias Larry Laine) of the Finnish Volunteer Battalion of the Waffen-SS when he fought the Red Army on the ...