Simo Häyhä – The White Death

The White Death

Interesting. Thanks OP.

If I recall correctly... there were a considerable numbers of Russian female snipers!

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Interesting read. Thanks for sharing.

Many of his kills were with a SMG or MG.  That doesn't discredit him but helps place it in perspective.  Note: in the Continuation War the Soviet snipers were kicking arse on the Finns.

Your memory serves you well.  The Soviets opened the Central Womens' Sniper School which held 9 month long classes.  Besides that, pre-war some women trained in sniping via the Osaviakhim, a para-military organization dedicated to military preparedness.  Several famous snipers graduated from that program.  Finally, they held field schools where an experienced sniper taught the craft to aspiring snipers.

All this will be covered fully in my book on WW II sniping.

Yes a finnish badass!! He was a tough bastard too  he was shot and they thought him dead till he woke up days later. In later photos he has a droop in his cheek.

When is your book scheduled for release?

Depends.  A publisher is very interested and is working on distribution in Europe.  His company doesn't specialize in WW II but in American Civil War and Revolutionary War material.  So, he's challenged with finding an editor competent or knowledgeable in WW II and as my research covers Western Europe and the Mediterranean, North Africa, Easterrn Europe and the Pacific that's pretty broad.  He already had a reader who read the manuscript and loved it.  Additionally the manuscript has undergone peer review by The Company of Military Historians and has received a "Standard Reference" in military history.  Anyway, here's an excerpt that I plan to put in:



Today law enforcement, military and privately trained pistoleros are instructed about situational awareness. We train to reload without looking and to reload when we want to, not when we have to. We also train to scan. Our GI sniper wasn't taught those things and was fortunate to survive his encounter.  

The GI's name and unit will be identified in the book.

@NomoAmmo - did you just change your avatar?

That's pretty cool. I hope it get picked up pretty quick!!!


I changed it a back in January. The irony in the picture really made me laugh so I thought I'd enjoy it for a while.