At the beginning of World War II, a small Nordic country Finland, killed a sniper of the past, he lurked in the snow of the Finnish winter, single-handedly sniped a total of 705 Soviet soldiers, to this day this record has not been broken, known as the "White Death", his name is Simon Heyer.
And he is known as the "king of world snipers", not only because of the number of records he has killed the enemy, but also because he has changed the role and status of the sniper branch in the war with his personal strength, and since then he has become famous in the position of sniper, including the volunteer sniper Zhang Taofang, who later shined on the Korean battlefield.
Simon Heyer was originally just a local hunter in Finland, usually hunting for a living, and it was this hunter experience that not only allowed him to develop excellent marksmanship and wild survival skills, but also gave him extraordinary sensitivity and hunting ability, which was also the basic quality of his later becoming a top sniper.
In November 1939, the Soviet-Finnish War officially broke out, and Simon Haye was thrown into the battlefield as a sniper, and began his own "road to consecration".
First of all, it was winter in Finland, snowy, Simon Heyer was wearing a snow-white camouflage costume, a white full-face mask, and a pair of white skis, which gave him a natural mobility advantage, and he began a frenzied hunt while Soviet soldiers were still struggling to pull their feet out of the snow.
Secondly, his endurance is amazing, often lurking in the snowdrift for a long time, in addition to shooting the snow near the muzzle in advance, he also contains snow in his mouth to prevent the exhaled heat from exposing the target, making it difficult for the enemy to detect his existence, and it is even more difficult to find his traces.
What's even more incredible is that Simon Haye often doesn't even use a scope when sniping, because he feels that he is exposed to sunlight, and his meticulousness and confidence in marksmanship are amazing.
According to statistics, Simon Haye only needs 1.3 bullets per enemy killed, and throughout World War II, an average of 2.5 bullets per soldier killed, a difference of nearly double, in the Soviet-Finnish War less than four months of the Winter War, Simon Haye even sniped with submachine gun fire, killing a total of 705 Soviet troops.
On March 6, 1940, Simon was unfortunately shot through his left jaw, and the left half of his face was almost blown off, but fortunately he was treated by his comrades in time and survived tenaciously.
After the war, Simon Haye became a national hero, rose directly from private to second lieutenant, returned to his hometown and picked up a shotgun again as a hunter, and finally lived until he died at the age of 97.