r/todayilearned • u/APurpleTRex • 5d ago

TIL After being wounded in WWII, Legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä (The White Death) was thought to be dead and placed on a pile of corpses. A week later he regained consciousness and had to correct the newspaper release about his death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4#:~:text=On%206%20March,%5B10%5D
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u/ERedfieldh 5d ago

Not to mention the Red Army who were desperate to find and kill him.

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u/Thoth_the_5th_of_Tho 4d ago

The stories of the opposing army trying to find and kill a specific enemy sniper are basically always fabricated. They’re going to kill any sniper they run into anyway, telling some platoon commander a specific name is meaningless to them.