Who does /b/ think of as the best all-time soldier? Why are they the best and would it be possible for that soldier's feats to be accomplished now days? I'm putting in my vote for Simo Hayha.
For those unfamiliar with Simo you can think of him as the world's best sniper. He had over 500 confirmed kills in about 100 days ( excluding what was done with his SMG ) during the Winter War and became so feared the Russians began launching air-raids and counter-sniping operations to try and take him out. Eventually he was shot in the face and wound up in an 11-day coma. His nickname was "White Death" and he is known for his preference of iron-sights over scopes to avoid unneeded glare. He was promoted from Corporal to Second Lieutenant and died at the age of 97.
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>>30112905
Forgot to mention that I don't believe his feats could be replicated today due to the advancements in satellite/thermal technologies.
>/b/
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Brigadier Hunter Choat.
If someone told you they were a French Foreign Legionnaire, SAS commanding officer, Gurkha officer, forward artillery controller, international mercenary and senior adviser to SACEUR you would think they were lying.
>>30112977
I don't think they'd be lying; I'd ask to know more. ;)
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>>30112965
Not OP, but do you have a better soldier ?
>>30114592
>better
define better.
also
git.
>>30112905
>for those unfamiliar with Simo
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1324390/The-hero-kilt-tackled-Panzer-division--accepted-surrender-23-000-German-soldiers.html
didn't kill a hundred soldiers or blow up a bridge but imagine the balls it took to make a decision to volunteer to get sent to an extermination camp
think about if you would do the same
>>30113031
>would you like to know more?
>56 confirmed small terrorist kills
>CTRL+F
>no Audie Murphy
>no man who killed 240 Germans
>no man that received literally every combat award given by the United States Army
>no man that stood on flaming tank destroyer for hour while killing/injuring 50 Nazis and only got off the damn thing because he ran out of ammo
Come on y'all
>>30112905
but that's not Ivan Sidorenko
>>30116280
>vatniks
>heros
try again
Lauri Törni, later Larry Thorne.
The inspiration for the main character of the Green barets.
Born in Finnish Karelia he begun his war as an animalmedic. Through the Winter war he became one of the most famous Finnish soldiers and by 1941 he had his own scout company which operated deep behind enemy lines.
One impressive feat was when his squad ambushed a Russian troop truck, only to get discovered by another one. After finishing (kek) the first two transport a third one appeared. The Finns were running out of ammo so the russians were slaughtered in hand to hand combat. He and his men survived and returned back to the Finnish lines.
In -42-43 he commanded a finnish tank squadron using T-26/Vickers tanks to advance against the Russians, he was famous of driving over anti-tank positions rather than shooting them up.
When Finland began seeking a separate peace with the Soviets he took a submarine to Germany to continue the fight against communists. Finally he surrendered to American troops after breaking a Soviet encirclement of an airstrip. The Americans just told him to go back and fight untill all his men could surrender to the west. Which he succesfully did. He later just walked out of a POW camp and returned to Finland.
After WWII when pro soviets were in control of Finland he was jailed after participating in a weapons hiding operation in case the Soviets would occupy Finland.
After his freeing he fled to the US to join the armed forces there, changing his name to Larry Thorne. He later recieved special forces training and joined the Green barets in Vietnam. There he set up camp close to a south-vietnamese village. He fought of a number of NVA and Vietcong offensives. An especially cool move on his part was when his own MG bunkers turned on him. He had previous suspicions at the loyalty of the south-vietnamese so he just blew up the bunkers he'd previously rigged with explosives.
He finally died in Vietnam after his helicopter crashed into a mountain.
>>30116510
Also fun fact, the former president of Finland Mauno Koivisto also fought with him during the war.
>>30115960
In WW2 they embellished your service for you.
>>30116292
shut up, fatnik
Fritz Christen
>On the morning of September 24, 1941, Christen and his anti-tank battery were engaging Russian targets north of the village of Lushno (Luzhno). In an initial engagement, Soviet skirmishers killed all of the other men of the battery. While exposed to artillery and small arms fire, Christen manned his 50mm cannon alone, holding on without supplies or provisions for the next three days. When a counterattack by other Totenkopf troops recaptured Lushno, Christen was credited with having knocked out 13 Soviet tanks and killed nearly 100 enemy soldiers singlehandedly. The soldiers that greeted him were baffled that a single artilleryman could hold his position against hundreds of Soviet troops and a formidable armor presence. For this stunning act of individual bravery, SS-Obergruppenführer Theodor Eicke awarded Christen with the Iron Cross, First Class and recommended him simultaneously for the Knight's Cross. Subsequently, Hitler awarded him the Knight's Cross, making Christen the first enlisted man in his division to be given the honor.
>>30114665
why cant I find anything about him in wikipedia???
Adrian von Fölkersam
>In early August 1942, a Brandenburger unit of 62 Baltic and Sudeten Germans led by von Fölkersam penetrated farther into enemy territory than any other German unit. They had been ordered to seize and secure the vital Maikop oilfields. Disguised as men of the dreaded Soviet security police, the NKVD, and driving Soviet trucks, Fölkersam's unit passed through the Soviet front lines and moved deep into hostile territory. The Brandenburgers ran into a large group of Red Army deserters fleeing from the front. Fölkersam saw an opportunity to use them to the unit's advantage. By persuading them to return to the Soviet cause, he was able to join with them and move almost at will through the Russian lines.
>Operating under the false identity of NKVD Major Truchin, based in Stalingrad, Fölkersam explained his role in recovering the deserters to the Soviet commander in charge of Maikop's defences. The commander not only believed Fölkersam, but the next day gave him a personal tour of the city's defenses. By August 8, the German spearheads were only 12 miles away and the Brandenburgers made their move. Using grenades to simulate an artillery attack, they knocked out the military communications centre for the city. Fölkersam then went to the Russian defenders and told them that a withdrawal was taking place. Having seen Fölkersam with their commander and lacking any communications to rebut or confirm his statement, the Soviets began to evacuate Maikop. The German spearhead entered the city without a fight on August 9, 1942.
That Roy Hernandez guy was fucking based.
>>30117209
I call bullshit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_cm_Pak_38
When his battery died, that nigga hid til the counterattack and maybe started firing that cannon again.
Not saying he can't shoot it, just saying that once hes firing on an enemy that knows where he is from a gun that can't manuever, its only a matter of time before they know where your shooting from and come and kill you.
Heinrich "The Hun Behind the Gun" Severloh
Hershel "Woody" Williams
>Landing on February 21, 1945, Williams, by then a corporal, distinguished himself two days later when American tanks, trying to open a lane for infantry, encountered a network of reinforced concrete pillboxes, buried mines, and black volcanic sands. Williams went forward alone with his 70-pound flamethrower to attempt the reduction of devastating machine gun fire from the unyielding positions
>Covered by only four riflemen, he fought for four hours under terrific enemy small-arms fire and repeatedly returned to his own lines to prepare demolition charges and obtain serviced flame throwers. He returned to the front, frequently to the rear of hostile emplacements, to wipe out one position after another. At one point, a wisp of smoke alerted him to the air vent of a Japanese bunker, and he approached close enough to put the nozzle of his flamethrower through the hole, killing the occupants. On another occasion, he was charged by enemy riflemen who attempted to stop him with bayonets and he killed them with a burst of flame from his weapon
>These actions occurred on the same day as the raising of the U.S. flag on the island's Mount Suribachi, although Williams was not able to witness the event. He fought through the remainder of the five-week-long battle and was wounded on March 6, for which he was awarded the Purple Heart.
>>30117242
Roy Benavidez you fucking civilian
>>30117329
Here's the official Medal of Honor Citation
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Demolition Sergeant serving with the First Battalion, Twenty-First Marines, Third Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, Volcano Island, 23 February 1945. Quick to volunteer his services when our tanks were maneuvering vainly to open a lane for the infantry through the network of reinforced concrete pillboxes, buried mines and black, volcanic sands, Corporal Williams daringly went forward alone to attempt the reduction of devastating machine-gun fire from the unyielding positions. Covered only by four riflemen, he fought desperately for four hours under terrific enemy small-arms fire and repeatedly returned to his own lines to prepare demolition charges and obtain serviced flame throwers, struggling back, frequently to the rear of hostile emplacements, to wipe out one position after another. On one occasion he daringly mounted a pillbox to insert the nozzle of his flame thrower through the air vent, kill the occupants and silence the gun; on another he grimly charged enemy riflemen who attempted to stop him with bayonets and destroyed them with a burst of flame from his weapon. His unyielding determination and extraordinary heroism in the face of ruthless enemy resistance were directly instrumental in neutralizing one of the most fanatically defended Japanese strong points encountered by his regiment and aided in enabling his company to reach its' objective. Corporal Williams' aggressive fighting spirit and valiant devotion to duty throughout this fiercely contested action sustain and enhance the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
>>30117237
The biggest troll the world will ever see
Alfred Becker
>Be engineer
>Spend most of the war combing the beaches of Dunkirk and the captured French arsenal
>Take them to a Factory outside Paris and refit the equipment into German conversions
>Field several divisions alone with your work.
>>30116764
get back in your breadline, it would be a shame if you had to lose your spot
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Fritz Darges
>On 18 July 1944, during a strategy conference in the Wolfsschanze, a fly began buzzing around the room, allegedly landing on Hitler's shoulder and on the surface of a map several times. Irritated, Hitler ordered Darges to dispatch the nuisance. Darges suggested that, as it was an airborne pest, the job should go to the Luftwaffe adjutant, Nicolaus von Below. Hitler took Darges aside, dismissed him on the spot and had him transferred to the Eastern Front.
>In August 1944 Darges returned to the SS Wiking to replace Johannes Mühlenkamp as the commander of the 5th SS Panzer Regiment. It was in command of this unit that Darges was awarded the Knight's Cross for his actions on the night of 4 January 1945. The division was advancing towards Bicske when it was stopped by the 41st Guards Rifle Division of the Soviet 4th Guards Army. Darges initially probed the Soviet line with a mixed Panzer and Panzer Grenadier Kampfgruppe and succeeded in breaking through the line at dawn. Subsequently he ambushed and destroyed a Soviet task force, knocking out four 122mm guns, four 76mm anti-tank guns, twelve trucks and a number of supply vehicles. He then attacked Regis Castle, forcing the garrison to retreat. Darges then found himself surrounded by Soviet reinforcements and was forced to repel several attacks. Three days later when they were relieved by another Kampfgruppe from SS Wiking, they left behind more than thirty destroyed Soviet tanks
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German Teddy Roosevelt, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.
Tied up a 300k strong force with a 14k force for four years and was undefeated. Ripped apart a scuttled cruiser to make his own mobile artillery. Only Germany commander during WWI to successfully invade Imperial British Soil. Trained his Local African soldiers so well they were later considered State Guest's.
Told Hitler to go fuck himself to his face and had nothing done to him.
>During the 1960s, Charles Miller asked the nephew of a Schutztruppe officer, "I understand that von Lettow told Hitler to go fuck himself."
>The nephew responded, "That's right, except that I don't think he put it that politely."
>>30117714
at least it's shorter than the rapeline to your mom
>>30117987
vatniks know alot about rape huh. it probably helps to cope with being stuck in a third world shithole
>>30118001
>third world shithole
that's one way to call her orifice
>>30117216
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/sgm-mike-vining
>>30118109
yes Mother Russia sure is a third world shithole
>largest country on the planet has an economy the size of Spain
what's it like living in Blocs? probably no different than a gulag
>>30116510
Larry Thorne never died, he just went home.
Hitler. Almost survived both world wars, fighting in the first and starting the second. Also, you know, 6 gorillian.
>>30117891
>>30115853 I thought In the last fuck Chris Kyle thread it was mentioned that he had 90 confirmed?
>>30119162
nice memes
