Simo Häyhä and Lauri Törni

Lauri Törni aka Larry Thorne. Fought in Winter war and continuation war, where he got hit but he escaped from the hospital to fight in the front. Then joined the German army and fought there. After WW2 he moved to United States and fought in Vietnam. Almost got expelled from US army when he beated alone 8 men with a barchair after they harassed his lady.

Törni in Vietnam, 10th Special Forces Group. He died there in december 1964 during a secret operation, the helicopter carrying him crashed into a hill in bad weather.

Simo "The white death" Häyhä. A sniper with 505 confirmed kills in 3months time (about 5-6 kills/day). The real number is estimated to be near 700 because of submachinegun kills and no time to count them in battle. Used always iron sights, freezed his firing positions so snow wouldnt disturb and show his positions.

Photo after Häyhä got hit by a explosive bullet. So its not manipulated, the sharp figures in the right is the background.

More about the invasion of Poland

The offical order of attacking Poland, signed by Adolf Hitler 31.8.1939.
Sorry for bad quality, I didnt find a better picture anywhere.

A copy of "The Topeka Daily Central" date september 1st. Gives me chills to think when somebody has opened the newspaper in the States and spit his morning coffee out when reading the headlines.

The city of Frampol, before and after. Frampol was the home of three thousand Polish jews and it was bombed to ground even it had no industry or military troops. The bombing happened on 13. september.

 

Picture taken on the evening of september 1st. The city is Wielun and 75% of its buildings were destroyed. This was the first military action of WW2 that was focused completely against civilians.

I got so excited about this that I had to find out a bit more when I had time. Here are few more pics..

World war II - Europe

Im starting with maybe one of the most famous pictures of Second World War; German soldiers moving a road barrier at Germany-Poland border.
Second world war had started only minutes before this picture was taken, when German battleship Schleswig-Holstein and Luftwaffes Stuka dive-bombers started bombing Polands soil. About 4.50AM 1.9.1939. "Blitzkrieg" turned out to be successiful and Danzig was occupied the same day.