The toughest individual WW2

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Since there already were one for armies and one for divisions, there needs to be one for individuals.

I nominate Simo Häyhä, the best sniper ever, with over 500 kills during winter war.

 

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Well, maybe not the toughest individual but someone though enough is surely Roza Shanina. She was a sniper and a senior sergeant in the red army and served in WW2. She is credited with 54 kills and received the medal of the Order of Glory 2nd class and 3rd class.

 

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Hans Ulrich Rudel:

The Knight's Cross with Golden Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds was the highest single grade of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, and was awarded only once during WWII - an exception to the rule for this award which was only to be awarded 12 times once WWII ended. It was awarded to Hans Ulrich Rudel in honor of his unrivaled heroism as a Luftwaffe Stuka pilot. Rudel was responsible for the destruction of 530 Soviet tanks, enough tanks for five complete Soviet Tank Corps! He also destroyed 150 anti-aircraft and anti-tank positions, 800 motor vehicles, the Soviet Battleship Marat, a Soviet Cruiser, a Soviet Destroyer, 70 Soviet landing craft, and numerous bridges and bunkers. He also heavily damaged another Soviet Battleship, the October Revolution. Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions, claimed 11 air victories in his Stuka, and was shot down 30 times.

http://www.feldgrau.com/rkgosd.html

 

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Originally posted by Icarus
Hans Ulrich Rudel:

The Knight's Cross with Golden Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds was the highest single grade of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, and was awarded only once during WWII - an exception to the rule for this award which was only to be awarded 12 times once WWII ended. It was awarded to Hans Ulrich Rudel in honor of his unrivaled heroism as a Luftwaffe Stuka pilot. Rudel was responsible for the destruction of 530 Soviet tanks, enough tanks for five complete Soviet Tank Corps! He also destroyed 150 anti-aircraft and anti-tank positions, 800 motor vehicles, the Soviet Battleship Marat, a Soviet Cruiser, a Soviet Destroyer, 70 Soviet landing craft, and numerous bridges and bunkers. He also heavily damaged another Soviet Battleship, the October Revolution. Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions, claimed 11 air victories in his Stuka, and was shot down 30 times.

http://www.feldgrau.com/rkgosd.html

hmm 2530/(4*365)=1,7..considering he was shot down so many times he must have been wounded or MIA a lot, so he'd propable fly at least 2-3 sorties a day, propably more. That's one tough motherf*cker. Wonder if he ever slept

 

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I like American film actor Sterling Hayden (best known as General Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove). He was a member of the OSS during World War II, and was parachuted into Yugoslavia to aid the resistance there.

Probably not the toughest soldier ever, but he was one of the few "tough guy" actors who was actually a tough guy.

 

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What about Michael Wittman, i beleive he was the nr 1 tank ace from the entire war.

This is numbers i found.

- 141 tanks,
- 132 antitank guns.

And considering everything he met could kill or harm him it is a good job. In comparisation to the Stuka

 

[Aetius]

I'd say Otto Skorzeny.
He fought in France, the Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Russia as part of the SS.
He then became leader of the German commandos and rescued Mussolini from the Apennine mountains, organised a coup in Hungary and led the fake German-US troops in the Ardennes offensive. And he did this in his mid to late thirties.

 

[pithorr]

Originally posted by Perkele
Since there already were one for armies and one for divisions, there needs to be one for individuals.

I nominate Simo Häyhä, the best sniper ever, with over 500 kills during winter war.

Hm if you want to calculate it by the kill rate you should nominate guy who dropped bomb from Enola Gay...

 

[Jove]

Originally posted by Icarus
Hans Ulrich Rudel:

The Knight's Cross with Golden Oakleaves, Swords and Diamonds was the highest single grade of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, and was awarded only once during WWII - an exception to the rule for this award which was only to be awarded 12 times once WWII ended. It was awarded to Hans Ulrich Rudel in honor of his unrivaled heroism as a Luftwaffe Stuka pilot. Rudel was responsible for the destruction of 530 Soviet tanks, enough tanks for five complete Soviet Tank Corps! He also destroyed 150 anti-aircraft and anti-tank positions, 800 motor vehicles, the Soviet Battleship Marat, a Soviet Cruiser, a Soviet Destroyer, 70 Soviet landing craft, and numerous bridges and bunkers. He also heavily damaged another Soviet Battleship, the October Revolution. Rudel flew 2,530 combat missions, claimed 11 air victories in his Stuka, and was shot down 30 times.

http://www.feldgrau.com/rkgosd.html

During the later part of his career, he also had a fake leg.

My nomonation would be my grandmother's last husband. He was captured in the Phillippeans in 1942. Did the death march, and spent his whole war in a POW camp. Told me he weighted only 98 pounds when he was freed and spent a good part of his time in northern island in a copper mine.

 

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What about Audie Murphy?

Respectfully,

Lucius Cornelius Sulla
www.novaroma.org

 

[King of Men]

Originally posted by Perkele
I nominate Simo Häyhä, the best sniper ever, with over 500 kills during winter war.

That a lot of dead people, but surely a lot of machine gunners could match it? Also, how tough is it to kill someone at 500 m range?

 

[HJ Tulp]

That guy, what's his name.
Soldier of Orange. FOrgot his name. Escaped fom occupied Holland to England. Came back to Holland to help the Dutch resistance, got arrested. Was set free after being tortured. The Germans had brainwashed him to assasin some guy in London but he didn't do it.

 

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Originally posted by HJ Tulp
That guy, what's his name.
Soldier of Orange. FOrgot his name. Escaped fom occupied Holland to England. Came back to Holland to help the Dutch resistance, got arrested. Was set free after being tortured. The Germans had brainwashed him to assasin some guy in London but he didn't do it.

Rutger Hauer?

 

[Aetius]

I guess the best place to look for this kind of person would be in the Soviet penal divisions. Anyone who survive long in one of them must be tough

 

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Gosh.... .thread devoted to serial killers

May I remind you that to have a guts not exatly require killing hundreds of people....

 

[Aetius]

Originally posted by EUfan
Gosh.... .thread devoted to serial killers

May I remind you that to have a guts not exatly require killing hundreds of people....

Running into minefields fields under enemy fire a la Soviet Penal division, does though

 

[Finnish Dragon]

How about that Japanese soldier who went to the war in 1941 and returned to Japan in 1974 or something like that. Someone who lives 30 years in jungle is definately a tough individual. I don´t remember his name but I hope that someone remembers.

 

[Vulture]

Originally posted by Aetius
Running into minefields fields under enemy fire a la Soviet Penal division, does though

Weren't they called strafrotski or something like that?

 

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Originally posted by Vulture
Weren't they called strafrotski or something like that?

Close enough...

singular: shtrafrot
plural: shtrafroty

 

[Finnish Dragon]

I found the name for one Japanese jungle straggler. His name was Yoichi Yokoi. To find out information about him please click here.