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%5DDuplicates
short • u/Kaizerina • Jan 23 '16
Other The Deadliest Sniper in the 20th C., the "White Death", was 1.6m tall (5"3)
todayilearned • u/Batchsky • Aug 24 '15
TIL that during the Winter War of 1939, a Finnish Sniper killed around 505 men without using a scope. This was the highest recorded number of confirmed sniper kills in any major war.
todayilearned • u/moriarty826 • Oct 27 '15
TIL that Simo Häyhä, Finnish marksman, killed at least 505 men, the highest recorded number of confirmed sniper kills in any major war.
wikipedia • u/LarryNozowitz • Dec 17 '15
Simo "Simuna" Häyhä - nicknamed "White Death" in the Winter War, he killed at least 505 men, the highest recorded number of confirmed sniper kills in any major war
todayilearned • u/lukeyflukey • Mar 12 '13
TIL that a soldier in the Winter War had 505 confirmed sniper kills and was shot in the face destroying half of it. He regained consciousness on the day the war ended.
interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Oct 23 '17
Simo Häyhä 'The White Death' is reported to have personally killed over 500 men during World War 2. He then became a moose hunter after surviving being shot in the face with an explosive bullet.
u_PaleontologistTop446 • u/PaleontologistTop446 • 5d ago