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1. I like the story about Simo Hayha making a Russian general so angry that the general called in an artillery strike on where he thought Simo was hiding.

   This may have been the inspiration behind the scene in the movie Shooter where the old guy says “They quit the subtle tactics”

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_jpjQXUyA

   (Shooter was based on Stephen Hunter’s novel Point of Impact)

   However, Simo was eventually crippled by a Russian countersniper. Something for Red Dawn fanboys to keep in mind.

2. Most of his kills were in the winter of ’39, many of them with Finnish sub machine gun at night while the Russians were standing around large bonfires to keep from freezing to death. He was taken out early in the following hostilities with an explosive bullet to the face and spent a lot of the war in recovery. Two of my friends talked to him while they were in Finland Before Hayha passed away. He was a tough old bird.

3. While I have read Wikipedia about him, my stepdad has read a couple of books on Finns in WW2 and one him. He’s given me these books but I have not had the chance to read the yet.
   My stepdad is weird, he loves reading on anything that kicks but on Commies, Fascist, and Socialist, but he and my mom are both Democrats, hardcore Democrats. Anyone else see what I see?

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