Häyhä is believed to have been a major inspiration for Aatami Korpi, the stoic main character of the ongoing “Sisu” film series.

The French author travelled to Finland’s icy forests to get closer to his subject – sniper Simo Häyhä and the Finnish ...

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Reddit Share on LinkedIn Share via Email On a rainy morning in the Taipalsaari Live Fire Area, Soldiers of the 2-22, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain ...

TAIPALSAARI, Finland - Three Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, competed in the Finnish Sniper Championship ...

Finland officially became the 31st member of the NATO military alliance on Tuesday. To mark the occasion, a US embassy posted a meme to Twitter about Finnish snipers. These snipers are a legendary ...

HOHENFELS, Germany – A U.S. Army soldier was paired with a NATO ally for the first time to compete in the eighth annual European Best Sniper Team Competition that concluded over the weekend at the ...

Aatami Korpi, the hero of the upcoming film “Sisu: Road to Revenge,” fights against both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union—mirroring Finland’s complicated World War II history. Following the ...

On December 21 1939, Simo Häyhä – a Finnish sniper long since mythologised as “the White Death” – beat his own record for Soviet soldiers shot in a single day: 25 dead. As Finland fought Stalin’s Red ...

At this point, Finland was less than a month into the Winter War, which was fought from November 1939 to March 1940. Häyhä – a diminutive, humble, unassuming farmer – served just 98 days before he was ...