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3210 The White Death: Finnish marksman Simo Häyhä

3210 The White Death: Finnish marksman Simo Häyhä

FromThe History Network


3210 The White Death: Finnish marksman Simo Häyhä

FromThe History Network

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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Jul 31, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Simo Häyhä tormented Soviet forces invading his native Finland between December 1939 and March 1940, killing 542 enemy soldiers in only 98 days. In the hostile, minus forty degree conditions of the Finnish winter of 1939-40, a man clad all in white lay with packed snow mounded in front of him as he awaited his enemy. The man was Simo Häyhä and he was armed with only a regulation, bolt action rifle – he preferred the standard sight as it could not fog over or catch the light and was less conspicuous than a telescopic sight. Next to him lay his sub-machinegun and he was no less deadly with that weapon. During the Winter War, Häyhä accurate sniper fire would account for almost an entire battalion of Russian soldiers. Dur: 24mins File: .mp3
Released:
Jul 31, 2022
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