simo häyhä

Simo "Simuna" Häyhä (Finnish: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] (listen); 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002) was a Finnish military sniper in the Second World War during the 1939–40 Winter War against the Soviet Union. He used a Finnish-produced M/28-30, a variant of the Mosin–Nagant rifle, and a Suomi KP/-31 submachine gun. Häyhä is believed to have killed over 500 men during the Winter War, the highest number of sniper kills in any major war.Simo estimated in his private war-time diary that he shot around 500. Häyhä's diary, which covers his experiences in the Winter War from 13 November 1939 to 13 March 1940, was accidentally found by those who had studied Häyhä's war history; it had been hidden for decades.

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