During the Second World War, a Finnish Soldier, named Simo Hayha, trained as a sniper. During the winter war between 1939 and 1940, he stationed himself in the forest, and began picking off Russian soldiers, with a rifle that had no scope ( to avoide reflections giving away his location) and he constantly had his mouth full of snow ( avoiding detection by breath vapour). When the Russians realised all of their men were being shot by one man, they nicknamed him “white death”, and sent a team of counter snipers to get him. Simo killed them all. The Russians got peed off with him, so rather than risk any more men, they carpet bombed his suspected location. This didn’t work either, and Simo escaped with nothing more than a singed jacket. Eventually a Russian soldier got lucky, and shot Simo in the face, but Simo managed to summon help, and was taken to a military hospital “with half his head shot open”. He was in a Coma for a week, but survived. When he recovered the war was over, and his final official kill count was 505, but many people believe this number was actually far higher( the highest of any Finnish Soldier in history).
