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Simo Hayha, "The White Death", Finland, Winter War, 1940 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] P00ptart@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was also the grandfather of the .50 sniper rifle, because he mounted a sniper scope onto an M2 .50 machine gun.

His biography is insane, the stuff he managed to live through is unreal.

[โ€“] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Is he the one that sighted in on a boulder to get everything zeroed, only to have a VC spotter setup on his boulder..?