The White Death #shorts
Simon Whistler · August 21, 2023 · 1 min video · Europe & NATO
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Although referring in this case to a sniper, not an illness, Simo Hire, known by his nickname "The White Death," was indeed a plague to the Russian soldiers in Finland during Stalin's invasion in the Second World War. In November 1939, Russian troops began an offensive that became known as the Winter War.
Hire, utilizing his knowledge of the frozen landscape and his childhood experience as a hunter, proved himself to be an outstanding marksman and was soon selected to be a sniper for the Finnish army.
Refusing to use a rifle with a scope in order to protect himself from any reflections that may give away his position and dressed completely in white as camouflage in the snow, he achieved an estimated 505 kills, 25, once coming in a single day.
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