One Way Up Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4 Anyone ever heard of this guy? I just learned about him today. Absolute madness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest emp_newb Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 There was a Polish sniper who did the SAME thing to the germans. Lay in the snow, only used iron sights. He was credited with a bit over 500 confirmed as well. He was never even shot though. He would half bury himself in the snow, use his snow-shoes to make compact snow walls about him, his rifle was painted with a no-glare white as well. He gave the germans hell. Between snowy terrain, and german inexperience, poland gave them a nasty run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinblades713 Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Vasily Zaytsev was a badass too. And he had a movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Damn twin beat me to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Child Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Pretty good movie, though mostly bs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Between snowy terrain' date=' and german inexperience, poland gave them a nasty run.[/quote'] Yeah, that whole month of Poland being rolled over by blitzkrieg was tough on Germany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest emp_newb Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Do the research pali. Poland causes more german fatalities during invasion than anyone they invaded except russia. And the russian stats are counting disease, and cold related deaths that where not necessarily caused by russia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psycho Child Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Time =/= effort. Poland was also at the beginning of the war before Germany was tired and had ****ty leadership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mindflayer Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Оптимисты видят улыбку фортуны, песимисты - оскал её зубов... Reminds me of myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Do the research pali. Poland causes more german fatalities during invasion than anyone they invaded except russia. And the russian stats are counting disease' date=' and cold related deaths that where not necessarily caused by russia [/quote'] Wikipedia would disagree with you... German losses during invasion of Poland: 16,343 killed, 320 MIA, 27,640 wounded. German losses during invasion of France: 27,074 killed, 18,384 MIA, 110,034 wounded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nikodemus Posted July 7, 2009 Report Share Posted July 7, 2009 Soviet Russian effort to conquer Finland within 1-3 months still gives me some happy thoughts, even if in a slightly disturbing manner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WagesofSin Posted July 11, 2009 Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 Wikipedia would disagree with you... German losses during invasion of Poland: 16,343 killed, 320 MIA, 27,640 wounded. German losses during invasion of France: 27,074 killed, 18,384 MIA, 110,034 wounded. Yes, but look at the ratio of troops involved. Poland was double teamed by germany AND soviets from two sides. Poles were outnumbered 2:1, and were lagging behind technologically and equipment compared to the germans. So yes, germans took more casualties in France, but there was not such a great disparity of troop numbers as there was in Poland. Plus, France had better equipment and many allies. Emp would be right in that Poles caused more damage to the Germans than France, on a ratio of troop numbers: casualties. Oh and, just for kicks: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pali Posted July 11, 2009 Report Share Posted July 11, 2009 Poland causes more german fatalities during invasion than anyone they invaded except russia. This sentence says nothing about ratios, so I assumed we were talking brute numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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