In an early scene in the movie Sergeant York, we s...  ...to become the most successful sniper in history. Simo Hayha (also spelled Häyhä) was a five foot ta...  ...lasted three and a half months, but in that time, Hayha racked up 505 confirmed kills, and would have kil...  ...he hadn't been wounded to...

In 1938, the Soviets requested a buffer zone in Fi...  ...l;rvi near the Soviet/Finnish border, 34-year-old Simo Häyhä was a farmer and hunter leading a...