Grigol Dvali, one of my Google+ buddies, on the Thinkers commmunity, alerted me to this extraordinary man. So thank you Grigol.
Simo Hayha was a sniper supreme
He shot in conditions very extreme,
It was often minus 40 degrees,
He was dressed in white, he moved on skis,
He killed 505 Russian men,
That is 5 a day, and then
The daylight only lasted hours
But he was set on destroying Russian manpower.
The Russians, amazed at his vicious attack,
Found a sniper to shoot him back,
They shot away half of Simo’s jaw,
But he survived and saw the end of this war,
He rose really fast up through the ranks,
Because his nation wanted to give him thanks.
The soldier in the picture is not Simo Häyhä. He is Ilmari Juutilainen.
“That the Allies won the war”??? Finland fought alone at Winter War and with Germans at Continuation War. Allies were our enemy at WWII.
Sorry. That picture is the one they have on the net of Simo Hayha. I will find another and trust that that one is right. I will also change the wording to more correctly reflect the Finnish perspective.
Now picture is ok and I like the text. (:
Great! I am pleased that you approve. I like to get my facts as accurate as possible and to get my readers’ approval. Sometimes relying on the net for pictures is a bad thing…so thank you for pointing out my mistake…!