The most bad ass modern rambo in history!
02-09-2009, 03:09 PM
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The most bad *** modern rambo in history!
He was so bad *** that they called him the "White Death"
Here's his story:
We all understand that action movies are cheesy escapism. After all, could one commando really take out a whole compound full of bad guys?
Actually, yes. It turns out the history books are full of stories of soldiers doing things so badass they'd hesitate to put them into a film for fear of killing the realism. Like these five, for example.
Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.
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Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.
Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got ****ing scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.
They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.
Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.
Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.
Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the ****ing White Death, damn it.
Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...
...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.
There a stories of 5 other super-warriors in this link in which I got this from. It's a 5 greatest warriors Vs modern day rambo, Simo was ranked at #5, which is insane to me, he should be number one!
http://www.cracked.com/article_17019...ike-*****.html
I thought you guy would enjoy this after a slow day in BAIC
Here's his story:
We all understand that action movies are cheesy escapism. After all, could one commando really take out a whole compound full of bad guys?
Actually, yes. It turns out the history books are full of stories of soldiers doing things so badass they'd hesitate to put them into a film for fear of killing the realism. Like these five, for example.
Simo Hayha had a fairly boring life in Finland. He served his one mandatory year in the military, and then became a farmer. But when the Soviet Union invaded his homeland in 1939, he decided he wanted to help his country.
Since the majority of fighting took place in the forest, he figured the best way to stop the invasion was to grab his trusty rifle, a couple of cans of food and hide in a tree all day shooting Russians. In six feet of snow. And 20-40 degrees below zero.
Of course when the Russians heard that dozens of their men were going down and that it was all one dude with a rifle, they got ****ing scared. He became known as "The White Death" because of his white camouflage outfit, and they actually mounted whole missions just to kill that one guy.
They started by sending out a task force to find Hayha and take him out. He killed them all.
Then they tried getting together a team of counter-snipers (which are basically snipers that kill snipers) and sent them in to eliminate Hayha. He killed all of them, too.
Over the course of 100 days, Hayha killed 542 people with his rifle. He took out another 150 or so with his SMG, sending his credited kill-count up to 705.
Since everyone they had was either too dead or too scared to go anywhere near him, the Russians just carpet-bombed everywhere they thought he might be. Supposedly, they had the location right, and he actually got hit by a cloud of shrapnel that tore his coat up, but didn't actually hurt him, because he's the ****ing White Death, damn it.
Finally on March 6th, 1940, some lucky bastard shot Hayha in the head with an exploding bullet. When some other soldiers found him and brought him back to base, he "had half his head missing." The White Death had finally been stopped...
...for about a week. In spite of having come down with a nasty case of shot-in-the-face syndrome, he was still very much alive, and regained consciousness on March 13, the very day the war ended.
There a stories of 5 other super-warriors in this link in which I got this from. It's a 5 greatest warriors Vs modern day rambo, Simo was ranked at #5, which is insane to me, he should be number one!
http://www.cracked.com/article_17019...ike-*****.html
I thought you guy would enjoy this after a slow day in BAIC
02-09-2009, 03:36 PM
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hah, I love Cracked top-lists, some pretty funny stuff there 
And yeah, the Fin's do not suffer fools and are not to be trifled with. Just looks at the stats on the war with russia, just check the casualties on both sides!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
And yeah, the Fin's do not suffer fools and are not to be trifled with. Just looks at the stats on the war with russia, just check the casualties on both sides!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
02-09-2009, 06:34 PM
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oh dang i just read the rest of the article. that one indian dude took out a whole bunker while being shot up already and killing everyone with his bare hands...crazy lol
02-09-2009, 06:58 PM
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The Soviet forces had four times as many soldiers as the Finns, 30 times as many aircraft and 218 times as many tanks.
02-10-2009, 07:36 AM
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MOH Recipient Ed Freeman Dies
Not quite Finn Badd ***, but pretty dang tough.
He died the same day Paul Newman did, but y'all knew that.
Not quite Finn Badd ***, but pretty dang tough.
One unexpected visitor offered a very personal thank you to Freeman, a veteran of three wars and recipient of the highest military award -- the Congressional Medal of Honor -- for his actions on Nov. 14, 1965, at Landing Zone X-Ray, Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam....
...His Medal of Honor citation credits him with helping save 30 seriously wounded soldiers in 14 separate rescue missions in an unarmed helicopter.
...His Medal of Honor citation credits him with helping save 30 seriously wounded soldiers in 14 separate rescue missions in an unarmed helicopter.
02-10-2009, 09:34 AM
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Captain Vasily Grigorevich Zaytsev
(March 23, 1915–December 15, 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. He killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snipers.Prior to November 10, he had already killed 32 Axis soldiers with the standard-issue Mosin-Nagant rifle. Between October 1942 and January 1943, Zaytsev had made 242 verified kills,but the real number may be much higher;some argue it might have been as many as 500.His military rank at the time was Junior Lieutenant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_...yevich_Zaitsev
(March 23, 1915–December 15, 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. He killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snipers.Prior to November 10, he had already killed 32 Axis soldiers with the standard-issue Mosin-Nagant rifle. Between October 1942 and January 1943, Zaytsev had made 242 verified kills,but the real number may be much higher;some argue it might have been as many as 500.His military rank at the time was Junior Lieutenant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_...yevich_Zaitsev
02-10-2009, 09:41 AM
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enemy at the gates! such a beast
Captain Vasily Grigorevich Zaytsev
(March 23, 1915–December 15, 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. He killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snipers.Prior to November 10, he had already killed 32 Axis soldiers with the standard-issue Mosin-Nagant rifle. Between October 1942 and January 1943, Zaytsev had made 242 verified kills,but the real number may be much higher;some argue it might have been as many as 500.His military rank at the time was Junior Lieutenant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_...yevich_Zaitsev
(March 23, 1915–December 15, 1991) was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. He killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snipers.Prior to November 10, he had already killed 32 Axis soldiers with the standard-issue Mosin-Nagant rifle. Between October 1942 and January 1943, Zaytsev had made 242 verified kills,but the real number may be much higher;some argue it might have been as many as 500.His military rank at the time was Junior Lieutenant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_...yevich_Zaitsev
