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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 ...
Mar 9, 2024 · During the Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland, Simo Häyhä became known as the "White Death" after killing over 500 Red Army soldiers. Simo Häyhä has the most confirmed kills of any sniper on record — and he endured astonishing conditions to earn that title.
Jun 24, 2020 · With at least 505 confirmed kills during the Winter War of 1939–40 between Finland and the Soviet Union, Simo Häyhä (1905–2002) has been labelled the deadliest sniper in history. Here, Tapio Saarelainen shares the story of the Finnish sniper and how he achieved his nickname 'White Death'...
Dec 4, 2022 · Simo Häyhä, "The White Death" was a Finnish sniper and a rifleman during the Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union in 1939-1940. The documentary of him...
Simo Häyhä was grievously wounded by a Soviet soldier’s explosive bullet that struck him in the lower left jaw on March 6, 1940. Miraculously, he reached the age of 96 before his death in 2002. Häyhä was born in 1905 in southern Finland near the Russian border. He was the seventh of eight children born into a Finnish farm family. After his daily work was done, he gravitated toward hunting, shooting, skiing, and pesäpallo, a Finnish form of baseball.
Simo Häyhä ( 17. joulukuuta 1905 Rautjärvi – 1. huhtikuuta 2002 Hamina) oli suomalainen sotilas Neuvostoliittoa vastaan käydyssä talvisodassa. Häntä pidetään yhtenä kaikkien aikojen tehokkaimmista tarkka-ampujista. Häyhän kolmen sotakuukauden aikana ampumien puna-armeijan sotilaiden määräksi on esitetty jopa 542 miestä (vähintään 505 sotilasta).
May 10, 2022 · Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä, also known as “The White Death,” killed more than 500 Red Army soldiers during the Winter War of 1939-40.
Jan 14, 2020 · Here, however, researcher and Doctor of Military Sciences Taipo Saarelainen writes about perhaps the deadliest snipers of them all in the history of modern warfare, Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä.
Dec 7, 2017 · Finnish Military Archives. The most successful sniper in history was a five-foot-tall Finn who attained 505 kills in 98 days during the Winter War of 1939-40 between Finland and Russia. Simo Häyhä was born on 17 December 1905 and was a farmer by profession.
Simo Häyhä (December 17, 1905 – April 1, 2002) was a Finnish soldier. He has the highest recorded number of confirmed sniper kills in any major war. The Russian soldiers began to call him as "White Death". He had over 500 confirmed kills during Winter war, which lasted only 105 days.
