History OneManArmy / RealLife

** "Hans Wind of HLeLv 24, Finnish Air Force, scored five kills in a day five separate times during the Soviet Summer Offensive 1944, a total of 30 kills in 12 days, of his final tally of 75."
** "Finnish top-scoring fighter ace, Warrant Officer Ilmari Juutilainen, shot down six Soviet planes on 30 June 1944. His final score was 94."

* The Viking at Stamford Bridge. This was a huge, nameless warrior clad in chain mail, a helmet with a nose guard, and an axe who stepped up to cover regrouping of Harald Hårdråde's forces after they were ambushed without their armor and pushed into retreat by King Harold Godwinson, the Saxon king during the time. The Norsemen fled across a bridge (later dubbed Stamford Bridge although a bridge by that name didn't exist at the time) to provide a choke point so the English army wouldn't be able to surround them with their metaphorical pants down. Then this man volunteered to stand alone on a bridge wide enough for three men to cross, facing an army thousands strong and ''held''. He stood alone for hours, fighting back against the Saxon horde, killing 40 men and wounding untold numbers. Presumably, the Vikings were too busy standing in awe of him to realize they should be using this opportunity to run because they were still there when the Saxons finally broke through. Oh, and the kicker? he was brought down (according to legend) by an intrepid Saxon soldier who hopped in the river, floated under the bridge, and stabbed him in the groin (which based on his exploits presumably provided a pretty damn big target). Notably, unlike many legendary medieval soldiers, his exploits are [[WorthyOpponent mentioned in the accounts of his enemies as well as his allies]], so it's fair to say that he really did do everything described.

* The ''USS Enterprise'' CV-06 can qualify as a one ship navy. Especially during the period of 30 October 1942 to 27 May 1943 where it served as the only operation US carrier in the Pacific after the loss of the ''Hornet'' in the Battle of Santa Cruz. At the start of the period, the ship sailed out into action with a placard on its deck labeled "Enterprise vs Japan." (The ''Enterprise'' won) During this period the ship sank a Japanese battleship and sixteen other ships while crippling 8 more. ''Enterprise'' and her air corps would go on to sink or damage almost 263 Japanese ships and shoot down or destroy 911 planes over the course of the war, becoming the most highly decorated American warship of World War II.

* Creator/AudieMurphy. While still bandaged from an earlier wound, he was wounded by mortar fragments in two feet of snow at -14F. When the ammunition for his personal weapon ran out, he climbed on a burning tank destroyer, that could explode at any minute, and used the .50 caliber machine gun to continue to lay a withering fire at the enemy, while calling down highly accurate artillery fire against the enemy. He received a further leg wound during this phase of the battle, which LASTED OVER AN HOUR, under constant attack from, as the citation for his Medal of Honor reads, "6 tanks, supported by waves of infantry". When the survivors of his squad regrouped with reinforcements, he personally led a counter-attack that forced an enemy withdrawal. According to his citation, he personally killed more than 50 soldiers in that battle. This was only his most notable achievement, by the way; he did similar things (though on a smaller scale) repeatedly in Italy. He also had malaria since the Italian campaign. Didn't get it cured until after the war was over. He was eventually credit with having killed more than 240 German soldiers ([[AndZoidberg and some Italians]]) - likely exaggerated, but even half or a third of this number is ''insane'' for one person (he also wounded or captured many more). In the film adaptation (called ''To Hell And Back'') he played himself, and he asked for some parts of the film to be removed because [[RealityIsUnrealistic "people wouldn't believe it"]]. We're talking about a biographic movie. He continued to be a badass in his post-war life, at one point famously beating up a much larger and ''armed'' mugger effortlessly.

* Michael Wittmann, maybe the most successful tank-commander in the war. He racked up 138 confirmed destroyed tanks. At one point in the war he defeated a british tank battalion and an infantry battalion almost singlehandedly. The British lost about 30 tanks.

* Heinrich Severloh, the everyman German soldier assigned to man WN 62, the machine gun nest that the Americans optimistically codenamed "Easy Red."[[note]] Each of the Normandy landing beaches was divided on Allied maps into sections designated by a radio phonetic alphabet letter ("Easy" being Allied phonetic for E) and a color. Easy Red was the section of Omaha Beach between Easy Green and Fox Green. Utah Beach ran from Able Green to Charlie Red, Omaha Beach from Dog Green to Fox Red, Gold Beach from George Green to Item Red, Juno Beach from Jig Green to Love Red, and Sword Beach from Mike Green to Oboe Red.[[/note]] Firing [[MoreDakka over 12,000 shots from his machinegun]] and 400 shots from two rifles, he managed to rack up dozens to hundreds of casualties in a single day's fighting, only retreating when all three of his guns failed due to heat warping. His testimony is, however, rather unreliable when one considers that he also claims that there were only 30 Germans defending all of Omaha when his own emplacement alone held 19 men... reliable figures aside, no-one doubts that he caused a 'lot' of casualties. When he was taken prisoner, he was afraid to speak about the battle for decades for fear of retaliation, and the American [=GIs=] and their families simply nicknamed the unknown enemy [[RedBaron "the Beast of Omaha Beach."]]

* Georg von Frundsberg. A simple mercenary in service of the Habsburgs. Realized heavy armoured knights were not feasable anymore. Basically invented the Landsknecht type of mercenary after Swiss model and successful enough to be a nigh-mythical figure in Landsknecht-culture.

* UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi gained his reputation after pulling one of these on the entire Yoshioka school. After he beat its two heirs in one-on-one combat, the entire school attacked him with bowmen, gunmen, and swords. Musashi ambushed them, killed their figurehead leader and got away.

* Mexican outlaw Augustine Chacon had a habit of going up against more than one gunfighter and always seemingly won. Like one time where a posse followed Chacon's trail to a box canyon, cornered him in and then called out for his surrender, but, the day-old outlaw decided he wasn't going to. Chacon then equipped himself with two revolvers and charged his pursuers on horseback. Four more cowboys were killed and Chacon rode off with a slight wound to one of his arms.

* Zhao Yun is probably unknown to most of the Western World, apart from [[VideoGame/DynastyWarriors Dynasty Warriors]]. In China, though (and most of Asia, for that matter), his name literally defines this concept. At the Battle of [=ChangBanPo=] he was tasked with finding and protecting his master's family, who had gotten lost in a retreat from an overwhelmingly superior force, and ended up fighting his way out of the entire army single-handedly. In the process, he killed about 50 officers and hundreds of soldiers, all the while cradling a baby boy in front of his chest. Rather hilariously, when Zhao Yun presented Liu Bei's baby to him after returning, Liu Bei ''slapped him'', saying "I can have many more children, but there is only one Zhao Yun.

* William Marshall definitely qualifies and is one of the most badass of people ever. A medieval knight with a record of 500 tournaments with no losses (and these were in the 12th-13th centuries before full-plate, when they were extremely dangerous), he had such a great reputation that other fighters used to gang-up on him to try to take him down. He was once so battered that they had to delay the award ceremony while a blacksmith hammered his helmet back into shape so he could get it off. Not only was he a brilliant tourney fighter, but also a great battlefield leader and warrior. At the age of 75, he led the charge at the Battle of Lincoln and personally killed the Count of Perche, the French leader and a man some 40 years his junior.

* The Viking at Stamford Bridge. This was a huge, nameless warrior clad in chain mail, a helmet with a nose guard and an axe who stepped up to cover regrouping of Harald Hårdråde's forces after they were ambushed without their armor and pushed into retreat by King Harold Godwinson, the Saxon king during the time. The Norsemen fled across a bridge (later dubbed Stamford Bridge although a bridge by that name didn't exist at the time) to provide a choke point so the English army wouldn't be able to surround them with their metaphorical pants down. Then this man volunteered to stand alone on a bridge wide enough for three men to cross, facing an army thousands strong and ''held''. He stood alone for hours, fighting back against the Saxon horde, killing 40 men and wounding untold numbers. Presumably, the Vikings were too busy standing in awe of him to realize they should be using this opportunity to run because they were still there when the Saxons finally broke through. Oh, and the kicker? he was brought down (according to legend) by an intrepid Saxon soldier who hopped in the river, floated under the bridge and stabbed him in the groin (which based on his exploits presumably provided a pretty damn big target). Notably, unlike many legendary medieval soldiers, his exploits are [[WorthyOpponent mentioned in the accounts of his enemies as well as his allies]], so it's fair to say that he really did do everything described.

* A slightly unorthodox, yet hilarious, non-lethal example: in December 2013, a man named Andrew Frey walked into a tavern outside of Salem, Oregon, high on methamphetamine, and proceeded to masturbate in the middle of the bar. Police were called to respond, and [[http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/12/alleged_masturbating_man_in_sa.html it ultimately took 15 cops from three different agencies and multiple hits from a Taser to bring him down]]--''while he was still masturbating.'' Frey woke up the following morning in the Marion County jail with absolutely no memory of the incident.

* Another one-ship navy was the Greek cruiser ''Averof'' during the First Balkan War (1912-1913). With neither the Greeks nor the Ottoman Empire having modern battleships (the only true battleships on either side were a pair of hopelessly obsolete German surplus pre-dreadnoughts in the Ottoman fleet), ''Averof'' was the most powerful ship in the Aegean at the time and also [[LightningBruiser faster than any other cruiser on either side]]. The first time ''Averof'' went into battle was in the Battle of Elli in December 1912. Greek Admiral Kountouriotis was frustrated that he was being slowed down by the rest of his fleet (a trio of old ironclad coast defense ships), so he simply left them behind, hoisting a signal flag for "independent action" to denote that the rest of the fleet was no longer to follow the flagship in formation. Using that superior speed, ''Averof'' was able to completely dictate the course of the battle, battering the Ottoman flagship (battleship ''Barbaros Hayreddin'') while coming out unharmed. The Ottomans fled. A month later, they sent one of their own cruisers as bait in hopes of drawing ''Averof'' way from the impending Battle of Lemnos. Admiral Kountouriotis, recognizing the bait for what it was, [[MilitaryMaverick ignored his orders to pursue the cruiser]]. At Lemnos, he again left the older battleships behind and again badly battered the Ottoman battleships while suffering no damage in return. The Ottoman fleet never attempted to enter the Aegean again for the rest of the war. ''Averof'' became known as "[[AffectionateNickname Lucky Uncle George]]"[[note]]It was named after shipping tycoon Georgios Averoff, who left 2.5 million gold francs (the equivalent to nearly 150 million US dollars today) to the Greek Navy in his will at his death in 1899), which was the money ultimately used to purchase the ship.[[/note]] to the Greeks and "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Satan's Ship]]" to the Turks. Though ''Averoff'' was much less important in later Greek wars (the rapid advance of technology left her behind), she survived to the modern-day as a museum ship in Athens and is still the ceremonial flagship of the Greek Navy. And remains capable of sailing under her own power, which is rarely the case for preserved museum ships.

* The ''USS Enterprise'' CV-06 can qualify as a one ship navy. Especially during the period of 30 October 1942 to 27 May 1943 where it served as the only operation US carrier in the Pacific after the loss of the ''Hornet'' in the Battle of Santa Cruz. At the start of the period, the ship sailed out into action with a placard on its deck labeled "Enterprise vs Japan." (The Enterprise won) During this period the ship sank a Japanese battleship and sixteen other ships while crippling 8 more.

* A Two Man Army example: American sniper CarlosHathcock and spotter Johnny Burke were on a mission behind enemy lines in the Vietnam War when they encountered a company of NVA soldiers (about 80 men) marching across a rice field. Hathcock and Burke each shot one of the officers, and the NVA soldiers, instead of running for the nearest forest, tried to hide behind a small embankment about 1000 meters from any more good cover. The two Americans picked off the NVA soldiers at long range for five days before calling in an artillery strike on the few remaining NVA soldiers. Only one Vietnamese soldier survived. Over his career, Hathcock had a total of 93 confirmed kills, and this was with kill-counting rules much more stringent than they were in previous decades (in the Vietnam War, kills had to be confirmed by an acting third party, who had to be an officer, besides the sniper's spotter; snipers often did not have an acting third party present, making confirmation difficult). Hathcock is also famous for ''[[ScopeSnipe firing a shot down the scope of an enemy sniper]]'', which is possibly the most incredible feat of military physics ever accomplished.

* The final charge of King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth certainly qualifies. Backed up only by a few mounted knights from his personal household, Richard charged straight into the highly-defended lines of Henry Tudor's personal guard, killing Tudor's standard-bearer with his lance and then using the ''broken end'' to unhorse the famed giant (over 6'2") and renowned jousting champion John Cheney before proceeding to cut a swath through the men and coming ''within a sword's-length'' of ''Tudor himself'' before reinforcements arrived in the form of Lord Stanley's ''entire army'' (usually believed to have numbered around 6,000 men). Even that, though, couldn't take Richard down (even his being unhorsed is usually believed to have had more to do with the fact that the area was marshy than any action on the part of Stanley's men), with him proceeding to kick the collective asses of the entire army and taking ''at least'' six or seven wounds to the head (plus an unknown number of soft-tissue or blunt-trauma injuries which cannot be discerned from the skeleton) while (''very'' loudly) proclaiming his enemies' blatant treason at their faces apparently for no other reason than that he felt like it. In between this and stabbing people in the faces, he also was calling for someone to fetch him a horse so that he could charge right back into the rather large ''army'' defending Henry Tudor in order to ''[[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething personally]]'' [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething take down the "Welsh bastard" who dared to challenge his right to rule]], only being taken out by a [[BladeOnAStick halberd]] shaving off ''[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat the back of]]'' ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill his skull]]''. This incident was apparently impressive enough that despite the Tudors doing pretty much everything they could to discredit Richard in order to legitimize their own reigns, the tale of "King Richard's badass death" survives in every single record from that time period. Did we mention that all of the above was accomplished by someone who was more-or-less universally known as being [[PintsizedPowerhouse rather small and frail]] (even for that time period) and who had [[HandicappedBadass scoliosis with a curve of up to]] ''[[HandicappedBadass eighty degrees]]'' that, had he lived in modern times, would have qualified him for the [[UsefulNotes/ParalympicGames Paralympics]]?

* Creator/AudieMurphy. While still bandaged from an earlier wound, he was wounded by mortar fragments in two feet of snow at -14F. When the ammunition for his personal weapon ran out, he climbed on a burning tank destroyer, that could explode at any minute, and used the .50 caliber machine gun to continue to lay a withering fire at the enemy, while calling down highly accurate artillery fire against the enemy. He received a further leg wound during this phase of the battle, which LASTED OVER AN HOUR, under constant attack from, as the citation for his Medal of Honor reads, "6 tanks, supported by waves of infantry". When the survivors of his squad regrouped with reinforcements, he personally led a counter-attack that forced an enemy withdrawal. According to his citation, he personally killed more than 50 soldiers in that battle. This was only his most notable achievement, by the way; he did similar things (though on a smaller scale) repeatedly in Italy. He also had malaria since the Italian campaign. Didn't get it cured until after the war was over. In the film adaptation (called ''To Hell And Back'') he played himself, and he asked for some parts of the film to be removed because [[RealityIsUnrealistic "people wouldn't believe it"]]. We're talking about a biographic movie.

* U.S. Army sniper Adelbert Waldron scored 109 confirmed kills in only 8 months.

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudel Hans Rudel]], Stuka dive-bomber pilot of the Luftwaffe, is probably responsible for the single-handed destruction of more stuff than any other person in history. He destroyed over 2000 targets, including, but not limited to, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, and a battleship. He also shot down 11 planes. VERY likely exaggerated, though even just 10% of those figures would be insanely impressive.

* The famous RedBaron got the most kills of any flying ace in World War I, with eighty. He did eventually die in battle, though. In World War II, his record was beaten by [[SerialEscalation over a hundred people.]] For a fair comparison, they had modern fighter jets. He had a Sopwith Camel (biplane).

* Michael Wittmann, maybe the most succesful tank-commander in the war. He racked up 138 confirmed destroyed tanks. At one point in the war he defeated a british tank battalion and an infantry battalion almost singlehandedly. The British lost about 30 tanks.

* Georg von Frundsberg. A simple mercenary in service of the Habsburgs. Realized heavy armoured knights were not feasable anymore. Basically invented the Landsknecht type of mercenary after Swiss model and succesful enough to be a nigh-mythical figure in Landsknecht-culture.

** Oh, and by the way, he was a dentist.
* Now for a one ''plane'' army, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_666 Old 666]], a [=B-17E=] Bomber. For short, we'll only give you its most infamous mission, a mapping mission of Bougain Island. With 22 minutes still on the clock and no fighter escort, Old 666 got ambushed by at the very least 17 Japanese fighters (15 [=A6M=] Zeroes and 2 [=Ki-46=] Dinahs). Old 666 then proceeded to ''dogfight them for said 22 minutes''. Let me say this again, a ''heavy bomber'' in a dogfight with 17 Japanese fighters. Until they ran out of fuel and/or ammo, having taken down many of them in the ensuing dogfight. Bombers aren't even meant to dogfight (though American ones were usually bristling with flexibly-mounted Browning .50s to fire everywhere at once) and this one takes 17 fighters on.
** Ironically, the bomber didn't really kill that many of the fighters (One Dinah and at least 3 of the Zeros), but, what makes her famous is that the ''ENTIRE'' crew got at least the Distinguished Flying Cross, while the Pilot (Jay Zeemer), and the Bombardier (Joe Sarnoski) were both awarded the Medal of Honor [[note]] Joe Sarnoski's was posthumous[[/note]].
** The bomber itself was also one-plane-air-force for the other missions it flew. It bristled with seven extra .50cals compared to a standard B-17E at the time. While adding extra guns was common practice, one of those guns was wired to the pilots' control yoke... so Jay Zeemer had a gun to shoot with. These were all added because [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor the crew wanted to take on the missions no one else would fly.]] These included a Skip bombing mission on a carrier [[note]] B-17s normally drop their bombs from an altitude of 10,000ft or higher [[/note]], a low-altitude raid on Rabaul Island, and a ''diving'' attack on Japanese search-lights during a night raid… all these were things that the B-17s smaller cousins like the B-25 Mitchel were used for, and yet, this crew did them anyway.

* Creator/AudieMurphy. While still bandaged from an earlier wound, he was wounded by mortar fragments in two feet of snow at -14F. When the ammunition for his personal weapon ran out, he climbed on a burning tank destroyer, that could explode at any minute, and used the .50 caliber machine gun to continue to lay a withering fire at the enemy, while calling down highly accurate artillery fire against the enemy. He received a further leg wound during this phase of the battle, which LASTED OVER AN HOUR, under constant attack from, as the citation for his Medal of Honor reads, "6 tanks, supported by waves of infantry". When the survivors of his squad regrouped with reinforcements, he personally led a counter-attack that forced an enemy withdrawal. According to his citation, he personally killed more than 50 soldiers in that battle. This was only his most notable achievement, by the way; he did similar things (though on a smaller scale) repeatedly in Italy.
** He also had malaria since the Italian campaign. Didn't get it cured until after the war was over.
** In the film adaptation (called ''To Hell And Back'') he played himself, and he asked for some parts of the film to be removed because [[RealityIsUnrealistic "people wouldn't believe it"]]. We're talking about a biographic movie.

* A Two Man Army example: American sniper CarlosHathcock and spotter Johnny Burke were on a mission behind enemy lines in the Vietnam War when they encountered a company of NVA soldiers (about 80 men) marching across a rice field. Hathcock and Burke each shot one of the officers, and the NVA soldiers, instead of running for the nearest forest, tried to hide behind a small embankment about 1000 meters from any more good cover. The two Americans picked off the NVA soldiers at long range for five days before calling in an artillery strike on the few remaining NVA soldiers. Only one Vietnamese soldier survived. Over his career, Hathcock had a total of 93 confirmed kills, and this was with kill-counting rules much more stringent than they were in previous decades (in the Vietnam War, kills had to be confirmed by an acting third party, who had to be an officer, besides the sniper's spotter; snipers often did not have an acting third party present, making confirmation difficult).
** Hathcock is also famous for ''[[ScopeSnipe firing a shot down the scope of an enemy sniper]]'', which is possibly the most incredible feat of military physics ever accomplished.
*** ''And'' he just took a wing shot at a glint of light.
* Hathcock wasn't even the deadliest USMC sniper in the Vietnam War- that was Chuck Mawhinney, who to this day holds the Corps' record for the most confirmed sniper kills, having recorded 103 confirmed kills and 216 probable kills in 16 months. His best day was Feb. 14, 1969, when Mawhinney encountered an enemy platoon and killed 16 PAVN soldiers with headshots.
* ...and ''Mawhinney'' was outdone in the same conflict by U.S. Army sniper Adelbert Waldron, who scored 109 confirmed kills in only 8 months.

* Like Bolden above, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080313184408/http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/200456162723 Brian Chontosh's]] exploits kind of sound like Call of Duty infiltrated reality, complete with picking up enemy weapons and discarding them when they run dry. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, following an ambush on his convoy, he launched a one-man assault of some Iraqi trenches with just his [=M16=] rifle. He twice picked up discarded enemy rifles and continued his ferocious attack after exhausting his own ammunition. When a Marine following him found an enemy rocket-propelled grenade launcher, Chontosh used it to destroy yet another group of enemy soldiers. When his attack ended, he had cleared over 200 meters of the enemy trench, killing more than 20 enemy soldiers and wounding several others.

** However it is hard to say how many people Heinrich Severloh killed, but it was doubtless many, very many as he was a crack gunner and marksman and there were targets aplenty to shoot at.

* One of history's greatest snipers was Vasily Zaytsev, who while fighting against the Nazis, managed to rack up a '''''mere''''' 242 confirmed kills to his name. Zaytsev was active on the front for a very short time, basically less than half a year. Remember, he wasn't an infantryman, he was a Marine, and he was transferred to Stalingrad from the Pacific Fleet only in Summer 1942. By the end of the summer, he was raking kills so quickly that the Soviet media made him a poster boy of all snipers in the army, despite his relatively average kill count. In the end, the brass realized that they [[SlaveToPR couldn't risk him getting killed on the front due to the effect it would have on morale]] and recalled him to Moscow, where he helped organize sniper schools and served as an [[VeteranInstructor instructor]]. Soviet snipers in general, because of the desperate conditions they fought in and how long the brass kept them at the front, tended to rack up enormous kill counts far in excess of other Allied forces, who rotated their snipers through combat zones.
** There's also the Soviet UsefulNotes/WorldWarII sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most accomplished known female sniper in history with 309 kills, including 36 German snipers sent with [[AssassinOutclassin specific orders to kill her]].
** And those are just the most famous ones. Other Soviet snipers credited with 100+ kills include [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Adamia Noah Adamia]] (200), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedir_Dyachenko Fedir Dyachenko]] (425), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Okhlopkov Fyodor Okhlopkov]] (429), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sidorenko Ivan Sidorenko]] (500), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abukhadzhi_Idrisov Abukhadzhi Idrisov]] (349), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Nomokonov Semyon Nomokonov]] (367), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilij_Kvachantiradze Vasilij Kvachantiradze]] (534), and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Surkov Mikhail Surkov]] (Officially credited with 702; this is likely propaganda, but there is no doubt he killed many enemy soldiers).
** All World War II era kill claims, of course, should be taken with a big grain of salt. While the methods and technology used to count kills became much more accurate in the latter half of the 20th century, it was shown that on an operational level, the World War II-era enemies consistently overestimated enemy losses by a factor of three. This was probably even worse on a personal level.

** It says a lot when the highest-scoring Allied tank ace of the whole war, Dmitry Lavrinenko, scored his 52-58 kills [[CurbStompCushion over the course of the disastrous Autumn 1941]], by exploiting the fact that T-34 was a LightningBruiser before the LensmanArmsRace took effect.
** The Germans had an even nastier surprise when they met the TonkaTough Kliment Voroshilov (KV) heavy tanks, especially the massive KV-2, which mounted an enormous [[{{BFG}} 152mm anti-fortification howitzer]] and was nicknamed "Dreadnought". When the 6th Panzer Division established a bridgehead on the Dubsya River, ''one'' KV-2 held the entire division off for a day. It wasn't destroyed either - it retreated when it ran out of ammunition. (This event was the basis for the infamous ''Raseiniai Heroes'' medal in ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks''.) The identity of the specific tank and crew involved has been lost to history, but it picked up the nickname "Monster of Raseiniai".[[note]]There's also some dispute about whether it was a KV-2 the preceding KV-1, but what records exist indicate a crew of 6, while the KV-1 had room only for 5.[[/note]]
** Its more conventionally-armed (76 mm cannon) cousin, the KV-1, was no slouch either. Senior Lieutenant Kolobanov had five of them, [[LetsSplitUpGang and three roads to cover]]. He sent off the two pairs to cover the less risky ones, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking then dug in to guard the third by his lonesome]], aided by the fact that the road was surrounded by swamps on either side. Then roughly 22 Panzers (likely Czech-made) showed up. The Soviets hit the leading tank and the rear tank and then went to work on the sitting ducks... MookHorrorShow and CurbStompBattle ensued, during which the Kliment Voroshilov tank [[NoSell no-selled]], by various accounts, 135 to 156 direct hits. You may have heard of ''Kolobanov's Medal'' in the same game mentioned above. While this was an extreme example, in the initial months of the German invasion it was common for a KV-1 to end up with dozens of dents in its armor from ricocheted German shells but otherwise come back completely unharmed.

** Well, each Gurkha is a one-man army. A ''regiment'' of Gurkhas is more than sufficient reason to say "ScrewThisImOuttaHere"

* During the 100 day Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, UsefulNotes/SimoHayha of Finland (generally considered to be the greatest sniper the world has ever seen) made over 505 confirmed sniper kills, and is credited for around 200 other kills with a submachine gun, ranking up at least 705 kills to his name. He ended his part in the war after getting shot in the jaw (read: head) with an ''explosive round'' and surviving. After getting shot he was in a coma for a week. The day he woke up is the day the Russians retreated from Finland. Coincidence? He then lived to the age of 97 years old.
** This total is actually very doubtful and outright disproven by Soviet records of losses in the same sector. It turned out to be a work of propaganda: contemporary sources show Hayha being credited with 219 to 259 kills in total, a more reasonable number (and possibly still overstated given the usual fog of war). The 705 figure is likely counting ''all'' kills made by his unit as his own, a common propaganda tactic at the time. Still impressive. His SMG kills may have been significant but are basically impossible to verify and no official figure has ever been given bar offhand guesses. Understandably, it would be hard to determine exactly ''who'' fired the kill shot in most of those cases, since Hayha was always ambushing Soviet troops with a squad behind his back in those instances, all of whom were also spraying SMG fire.
*** While 219 is indeed the number most commonly accepted for his ''confirmed'' kills nowadays, in recent years historians actually discovered a memoir written by the man himself a few months after the end of the Winter War, where he claims that he shot roughly 500 enemies with his rifle. This figure was never verified and had no proof behind it, but it sounded good, which likely made it the source of the later "505+ sniper kills" number bandied around.
*** The memoir couldn't have been the source of the original "over 500 sniper kills" rumors, given that it was only discovered circa year 2017. It's true that we will probably never get an absolute confirmation on the exact number here, but many historians are still inclined to believe this source given that A) it was never intended to be released for the public and was discovered on total accident, and B) the man himself was known for being very humble person who never made a big deal of his accomplishments. And when we take into account the sheer scale and overall poor management of the soviet invasion, it's still entirely possible they missed or mishandled the records of few hundred conscripts.
*** Artillery strikes managed to tear up his jacket once - and that was about it. That was more effective than the commandos (all of whom he killed) and all but the last counter-sniper (who died like all the others, but did shoot Simo Häyhä in the face before being killed). Think about that: nothing short of being SHOT IN THE FACE even slowed this guy down, and he got better from that. He is reputed to have been disappointed about why he was refused a return to active duty when he woke up: that was the day the war ended.

* Older example: The real Cyrano de Bergerac (the scene appears in the play as well) once fought a hundred armed men at once and won, killing so many the rest turned and ran. This was with a ''sword'' and no armor.
* Zhao Yun is probably unknown to most of the Western World, apart from [[VideoGame/DynastyWarriors Dynasty Warriors]]. In China, though (and most of Asia, for that matter), his name literally defines this concept. At the Battle of [=ChangBanPo=] he was tasked with finding and protecting his master's family, who had gotten lost in a retreat from an overwhelmingly superior force, and ended up fighting his way out of the entire army single-handedly. In the process, he killed about 50 officers and hundreds of soldiers, all the while cradling a baby boy in front of his chest. Rather hilariously, when Zhao Yun presented Liu Bei's baby to him after returning, Liu Bei ''slapped him'', saying "I can have many more children, but there is only one Zhao Yun."
** Zhao Yun pales to Xiang Yu in the Chu-Han contention. Apparently, only he can kill himself --- despite facing an entire army.
** Zhang Fei also belongs here: when Liu Bei, his friend, had to retreat from a city about to be attacked by Cao Cao's army, Zhang Fei went to the only bridge leading to the city, planted his staff, and ''dared the army to attack him.'' There was very obviously no one backing him up, but the army, rather than face him, ''turned and ran''.

* This is actually not a military example, but it still qualifies. In a letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson said this about his political arch-nemesis:
-->Hamilton is really a colossus to the anti-republican party [i.e., the Federalists]. Without numbers, ''he is a host within himself''. [Emphasis added.]

* Pretty much everyone on [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html this list]].
** Here's [[http://www.cracked.com/article_18810_the-5-most-epic-one-man-rampages-in-history-war.html some]] [[http://www.cracked.com/article_19306_the-6-most-epic-one-man-armies-in-history-war.html more]].

* Zvika Greengold, an Israeli tank commander during the Yom Kippur War. Commanded a ragtag group of four tanks in the Golan Heights he dubbed the 'Zvika Force' while Israel was still reeling from the surprise attack. Later fought with his own tank, changing vehicles half a dozen times and continuing to fight despite injuries such as burns and exhaustion. He fooled the Syrian army (and, unintentionally) his own commanders) into believing that he alone was a brigade-sized force of tanks and was credited with 40 tank kills over the course of a full day's fighting.
** His HeroicBSOD ("I can't anymore") turned out to be a PostVictoryCollapse.

* Pretty much anyone else on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviators_who_became_ace_in_a_day this list]], too. To name just half a dozen;

** In this example, Frey could also be considered a ''one arm army''.

*** The memoir couldn't have been the source of the original "over 500 sniper kills" rumors, given that it was only discovered circa year 2017. It's true that we will probably never get an absolute confirmation on the exact number here, but many historians are still inclined to believe this source given that A) it was never intended to be released for the public and was discovered on total accident, and B) the man himself was known for being very humble person who never made a big deal of his accomplishments.

* Now for a one ''plane'' army, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_666 Old 666]], a [=B-17E=] Bomber. For short, we'll only give you its most infamous mission, a mapping mission of Bougain Island. With 22 minutes still on the clock and no fighter escort, Old 666 got ambushed by at the very least 17 Japanese fighters (15 [=A6M=] Zeroes and 2 [=Ki-46=] Dinahs). Old 666 then proceeded to ''dogfight them for said 22 minutes''. Let me say this again, a ''heavy bomber'' in a dogfight with 17 Japanese fighters. Until they ran out of fuel and/or ammo, having taken down many of them in the ensuing dogfight. Bombers aren't even meant to dogfight (though American ones where usually bristling with flexibly-mounted Browning .50s to fire everywhere at once) and this one takes 17 fighters on.
** Ironically, the bomber didn't really kill that many of the fighters (One Dinah and at least 3 of the Zeros), but, what makes her famous is that the ''ENTIRE'' crew got at least the Distinguished Flying Cross, while the Pilot (Jay Zeemer), and the Bombardier (Joe Sarnoski) were both awarded the Medal of Honor [[note]] Joe Sarnoski's was posthumous [[/note]].

** New Mexico lawman Elfego Baca once arrested and disarmed a drunk cowboy, which got him accosted at a house later by about 40 armed cowboys. He shot one of their horses out from under them (leading to the man's death when his horse crushed them), and proceeded to fight a one-man siege against dozens of attackers. After about 33 hours and thousands of bullets being fired (the door alone was later found to have 400 bullet holes in it), the cowboys withdrew, having exhausted their ammo. In addition to the man Baca arrested and the first man he killed, the cowboys lost another 4 dead and 8 wounded. Baca was unharmed, and later acquitted in a court of law.

** The bomber itself was also one-plane-air-force for the other missions it flew. It bristled with seven extra .50cals compared to a standard B-17E at the time. While adding extra guns was common practice, one of those guns was wired to the pilots control yoke... so Jay Zeemer had a gun to shoot with. These were all added because [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor the crew wanted to take on the missions no one else would fly.]] These included a Skip bombing mission on a carrier [[note]] B-17s normally drop their bombs from an altitude of 10,000ft or higher [[/note]], a low-altitude raid on Rabaul Island, and a ''diving'' attack on Japanese search-lights during a night raid… all these were things that the B-17s smaller cousins like the B-25 Mitchel were used for, and yet, this crew did them anyway.

* Creator/AudieMurphy. While still bandaged from an earlier wound, he was wounded by mortar fragments in two feet of snow at -14F. When the ammunition for his personal weapon ran out, he climbed on a burning tank destroyer, that could explode at any minute, and used the .50 caliber machine gun to continue to lay a withering fire at the enemy, while calling down highly accurate artillery fire against the enemy. He received a further leg wound during this phase of the battle, which LASTED OVER AN HOUR, under constant attack from, as the citation for his Medal of Honor reads, "6 tanks, supported by waves of infantry". When the survivors of his squad regrouped with reinforcements, he personally led a counter-attack that forced an enemy withdrawal. According to his citation, he personally killed more than 50 soldiers in that battle. This was only his most notable achievement, by the way; he did similar things (though on a smaller scale) repeatedly in the Italy.

*** ''And'' he just took a wingshot at a glint of light.
* Hathcock wasn't even the deadliest USMC sniper in the Vietnam War- that was Chuck Mawhinney, who to this day holds the Corps' record for the most confirmed sniper kills, having recorded 103 confirmed kills and 216 probable kills in 16 months. His best day was Feb. 14 1969, when Mawhinney encountered an enemy platoon and killed 16 PAVN soldiers with head shots.

* Like Bolden above, [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080313184408/http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/lookupstoryref/200456162723 Brian Chontosh's]] exploits kind of sound like Call of Duty infiltrated reality, complete with picking up enemy weapons and discarding them when they run dry. During the 2003 invasion of Iraq, following an ambush on his convoy, he launched a one-man assault of some Iraqi trenches with just his [=M16=] rifle. He twice picked up discarded enemy rifles and continued his ferocious attack after exhausting his own ammunition. When a Marine following him found an enemy rocket propelled grenade launcher, Chontosh used it to destroy yet another group of enemy soldiers. When his attack ended, he had cleared over 200 meters of the enemy trench, killing more than 20 enemy soldiers and wounding several others.
* Los Angeles Watch merchant Lance Thomas managed to survive no less than 4 different gunfights with armed robbers in his store from 1989 to 1992, killing 5 and getting another 4 arrested. In the second incident, Thomas was shot 4 times by a .25 caliber pistol, three in the shoulder and one in the neck, but still managed to kill 2 members of the 5-man robbery team opposing him and force the other three to flee, where they were later arrested. In the third incident, Thomas was shot in the neck at point blank range with a 9mm Glock, but still managed to grab a gun and kill the attacker. In both cases, Thomas recovered and returned to man his store after less than a month in the hospital.

* Heinrich Severloh, the everyman German soldier assigned to man WN 62, the machine gun nest that the Americans optimistically codenamed "Easy Red."[[note]] Each of the Normandy landing beaches were divided on Allied maps into sections designated by a radio phonetic alphabet letter ("Easy" being Allied phonetic for E) and a color. Easy Red was the section of Omaha Beach between Easy Green and Fox Green. Utah Beach ran from Able Green to Charlie Red, Omaha Beach from Dog Green to Fox Red, Gold Beach from George Green to Item Red, Juno Beach from Jig Green to Love Red, and Sword Beach from Mike Green to Oboe Red.[[/note]] Firing [[MoreDakka over 12,000 shots from his machinegun]] and 400 shots from two rifles, he managed to rack up dozens to hundreds of casualties in a single day's fighting, only retreating when all three of his guns failed due to heat warping. His testimony is, however, rather unreliable when one considers that he also claims that there were only 30 Germans defending all of Omaha when his own emplacement alone held 19 men... reliable figures aside, no-one doubts that he caused a 'lot' of casualties. When he was taken prisoner, he was afraid to speak about the battle for decades for fear of retaliation, and the American [=GIs=] and their families simply nicknamed the unknown enemy [[RedBaron "the Beast of Omaha Beach."]]

* 20-year old SS-''Sturmmann'' Anti-Tank Gunner Fritz Christen, 3rd ''Waffen''-SS Division ''Totenkopf'', was left the lone survivor of his AT gun battery after a Soviet counter-attack with tanks and infantry wiped out the rest of the battery on September 24, 1941. He manned his gun for 3 days, fighting with his submachinegun when attacked by infantry, crawling among leftover guns to drag ammo boxes for his weapons, firing at Soviet tanks with his AT gun when they approached. When German reinforcements found him, they counted 13 destroyed tanks and about 100 dead Soviet soldiers.
* The top ranking World War II flying aces according to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces this]]. The one who scored the most kills that was finally himself killed in battle was Otto Kittel.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudel Hans Rudel]], Stuka dive bomber pilot of the Luftwaffe, is probably responsible for the single-handed destruction of more stuff than any other person in history. He destroyed over 2000 targets, including, but not limited to, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, and a battleship. He also shot down 11 planes. VERY likely exaggerated, though even just 10% of those figures would be insanely impressive.

* One of history's greatest snipers was Vasily Zaytsev, who while fighting against the Nazis, managed to rack up a '''''mere''''' 242 confirmed kills to his name. Zaytsev was active on the front for the very short time, basically less than half a year. Remember, he wasn't an infantryman, he was a Marine, and he was transferred to Stalingrad from the Pacific Fleet only in Summer 1942. By the end of the summer, he was raking kills so quickly that the Soviet media made him a poster boy of all snipers in the army, despite his relatively average kill count. In the end, the brass realized that they [[SlaveToPR couldn't risk him getting killed on the front due to the effect it would have on morale]] and recalled him to Moscow, where he helped organize sniper schools and served as an [[VeteranInstructor instructor]]. Soviet snipers in general, because of the desperate conditions they fought in and how long the brass kept them at the front, tended to rack up enormous kill counts far in excess of other Allied forces, who rotated their snipers through combat zones.

** All World War II era kill claims, of course, should be taken with a big grain of salt. While the methods and technology used to count kills became much more accurate in the latter half of the 20th century, it was shown that on an operational level, World War II era enemies consistently overestimated enemy losses by a factor of three. This was probably even worse on a personal level.

-->''Half a dozen anti-tank gun fire shells at him which sound like a drumroll. But he drives staunchly through our line like an impregnable prehistoric monster...''

* Bhanbhagta Gurung, when his unit was ambushed near Tamandu, immediately took charge. First he killed a sniper pinning his squad down with his rifle. Then he dashed out to attack a Japanese fox hole, braving machine gun fire to toss two grenades in the hole, killing two more enemies. He then cleared another foxhole by killing the occupants with his bayonet, and then two ''more'' foxholes with his grenades, all while being subjected to machine gun fire. When he finally got to the main enemy position, a bunker, he was out of frag grenades; so he chucked a smoke bomb in, waited for it to flush the Japanese soldiers out, and immediately cleaved two of them to death with his kukri before walking in to do the same to the third. To cap it off, he ordered three other men to stay with him and help fend off a platoon-sized counterattack, which they did, killing several more Japanese soldiers and holding their position.

* Also from [[strike:Gurkha]] Badass Of The Week: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pun.html Dipprasad Pun]]. He was credited with single-handedly fighting off between 15 and 30 Taliban insurgents, killing three, wounding several others, and causing the rest to flee. During the engagement he reportedly spent all his ammunition (more than 400 rounds), used 17 hand grenades and a Claymore mine before battering the last fighter with the tripod of his machine gun.

* The warrior-monk Tsutsui Jōmyō Meishū allegedly fended off an entire enemy unit single handedly at the Battle of Uji in 1180. So says ''The Tale of the Heike'': ''"And loosing off his twenty-four arrows like lightning flashes he slew twelve of the Heike soldiers and wounded eleven more. One arrow yet remained in his quiver, but flinging away his bow he stripped off his quiver and threw that after it, cast off his footwear and springing barefoot on to the beams of the bridge he strode across. [...] With his naginata he mows down five of the enemy, but with the sixth the naginata snaps asunder in the midst, and flinging it away, he draws his tachi, wielding it in the zig-zag style, the interlacing, cross, reversed dragonfly, waterwheel and eight-sides-at-once styles of swordfighting, thus cutting down eight men; but as he brought down the ninth with an exceedingly mighty blow on the helmet the blade snapped at the hilt and fell with a splash into the water beneath. Then, seizing his tantō, which was the only weapon he had left, he plied it as one in a death fury."''

** Finally being killed because he was paralysed from behind because he was too much raw badass to actually kill in face-to-face combat

* Canadian UsefulNotes/LeoMajor in World War 2. He started his career on D Day, capturing a German half track. Then, he went on to capture 93 German soldiers during the Battle of the Scheldt, and then single-handedly liberated the Dutch town of Zwolle. After the [[ItsPersonal death of a comrade]], he grabbed his friend's firearms and charged into the town. He found a German soldier and told him [[BackupBluff the town was surrounded]], promising their safety if they left quietly. After freeing the man, he wandered through the town firing his gun and setting off grenades to make his threat seem real - before finding the town's Gestapo headquarters and setting it on fire. He took several German prisoners but did have the help of local resistance fighters by then. Upon returning home he kept his exploits secret from his family until an official telegram with words of gratitude arrived from the Netherlands. When asked why he kept quiet, he replied that [[RealityIsUnrealistic he didn't think anyone would believe him]]. The town has a street named after him, and his story is taught in area schools to this day.

** The four Luftwaffe pilots that all made Triple Ace in a day (15+ kills over any number of sorties within a single day) - Emil Lang, Hans-Joachim Marseille, August Lambert, and Hubert Strassl. Closely followed by Erich Rudorffer, who managed 13 kills within a single sortie.

** "Finnish top scoring fighter ace, Warrant Officer Ilmari Juutilainen, shot down six Soviet planes on 30 June 1944. His final score was 94."
* If you talked to any gangster in Chicago or New York during the 1920s, they'd tell you that the [[CoolGuns/SubmachineGuns Thompson M1921/[=M1928A1=]]] was expensive and heavy, but could instantly turn one man into a man with the firepower of an entire army. It should be noted that most gangsters carried far cheaper handguns or a SawedOffShotgun, and only professional hitmen, nicknamed "torpedoes", wielded the feared tommy gun.
* The final charge of King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth certainly qualifies. Backed up only by a few mounted knights from his personal household, Richard charged straight into the highly-defended lines of Henry Tudor's personal guard, killing Tudor's standard bearer with his lance and then using the ''broken end'' to unhorse the famed giant (over 6'2") and renowned jousting champion John Cheney before proceeding to cut a swath through the men and coming ''within a sword's-length'' of ''Tudor himself'' before reinforcements arrived in the form of Lord Stanley's ''entire army'' (usually believed to have numbered around 6,000 men). Even that, though, couldn't take Richard down (even his being unhorsed is usually believed to have had more to do with the fact that the area was marshy than any action on the part of Stanley's men), with him proceeding to kick the collective asses of the entire army and taking ''at least'' six or seven wounds to the head (plus an unknown number of soft-tissue or blunt-trauma injuries which cannot be discerned from the skeleton) while (''very'' loudly) proclaiming his enemies' blatant treason at their faces apparently for no other reason than that he felt like it. In between this and stabbing people in the faces, he also was calling for someone to fetch him a horse so that he could charge right back into the rather large ''army'' defending Henry Tudor in order to ''[[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething personally]]'' [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething take down the "Welsh bastard" who dared to challenge his right to rule]], only being taken out by a [[BladeOnAStick halberd]] shaving off ''[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat the back of]]'' ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill his skull]]''. This incident was apparently impressive enough that despite the Tudors doing pretty much everything they could to discredit Richard in order to legitimize their own reigns, the tale of "King Richard's badass death" survives in every single record from that time period. Did we mention that all of the above was accomplished by someone who was more-or-less universally known as being [[PintsizedPowerhouse rather small and frail]] (even for that time period) and who had [[HandicappedBadass scoliosis with a curve of up to]] ''[[HandicappedBadass eighty degrees]]'' that, had he lived in modern times, would have qualified him for the [[UsefulNotes/ParalympicGames Paralympics]]?
* An unidentified fugitive known under the pseudonym, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Johnson_(criminal) Albert Johnson]], survived three shootouts against multiple people on his own. One against 4 police officers that attempted to arrest him. The second shootout was against a posse of 9 men armed with dynamite, and 42 hunting dogs. The third shootout was against a larger posse, this time costing the life of Constable Edgar Millen. Albert Johnson was finally killed a month later from a shot to the pelvis as he attempted to cross a river bank.

* One-ship-navy. In 1591, the English ship [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_ship_Revenge_(1577) HMS Revenge]] was part of a fleet of 6 ships stationed in the Azores. When they sighted 53 Spanish ships approaching, the other 5 vessels fled, but the Revenge stayed behind because half the crew was sick with fever and [[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Grenville Captain Sir Richard Grenville]] wouldn't leave them for the Spanish Inquistion. People are still arguing about whether or not the Revenge couldn't escape in time or whether Captain Grenville was just crazy enough to order the ship to turn back and attack, but either way the Revenge ended up fighting all 53 Spanish ships on her own. The Revenge was 400 tonnes; the Spanish flagship San Felipe alone was three times her size, making this a good example of a [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PintsizedPowerhouse pint-sized powerhouse]]. The Revenge still managed to sink or disable sixteen enemy ships in a battle that lasted for a full day and a night, before eventually surrendering when she ran out of ammo. Of her 190 crew, only 16 survivors made it home.
* Another one-ship navy was the Greek cruiser ''Averof'' during the First Balkan War (1912-1913). With neither the Greeks nor the Ottoman Empire having modern battleships (the only true battleships on either side were a pair of hopelessly obsolete German surplus pre-dreadnoughts in the Ottoman fleet), ''Averof'' was the most powerful ship in the Aegean at the time and also [[LightningBruiser faster than any other cruiser on either side]]. The first time ''Averof'' went into battle was in the Battle of Elli in December 1912. Greek Admiral Kountouriotis was frustrated that he was being slowed down by the rest of his fleet (a trio of old ironclad coast defense ships), so he simply left them behind, hoisting a signal flag for "independent action" to denote that the rest of the fleet was no longer to follow the flagship in formation. Using that superior speed, ''Averof'' was able to completely dictate the course of the battle, battering the Ottoman flagship (battleship ''Barbaros Hayreddin'') while coming out unharmed. The Ottomans fled. A month later, they sent one of their own cruisers as bait in hopes of drawing ''Averof'' way from the impending Battle of Lemnos. Admiral Kountouriotis, recognizing the bait for what it was, [[MilitaryMaverick ignored his orders to pursue the cruiser]]. At Lemnos he again left the older battleships behind and again badly battered the Ottoman battleships while suffering no damage in return. The Ottoman fleet never attempted to enter the Aegean again for the rest of the war. ''Averof'' became known as "[[AffectionateNickname Lucky Uncle George]]"[[note]]It was named after shipping tycoon Georgios Averoff, who left 2.5 million gold francs (the equivalent to nearly 150 million US dollars today) to the Greek Navy in his will at his death in 1899), which was the money ultimately used to purchase the ship.[[/note]] to the Greeks and "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Satan's Ship]]" to the Turks. Though ''Averoff'' was much less important in later Greek wars (the rapid advance of technology left her behind), she survived to the modern day as a museum ship in Athens and is still the ceremonial flagship of the Greek Navy. And remains capable of sailing under her own power, which is rarely the case for preserved museum ships.

* Sergeant [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York Alvin York]] singlehandedly wiped out a German machine gun nest in WW I, making the leader of that nest and his men (133 people) surrender to him after killing 24 soldiers with his rifle.

* Creator/AudieMurphy. While still bandaged from an earlier wound, he was wounded by mortar fragments in two feet of snow at -14F. When the ammunition for his personal weapon ran out, he climbed on a burning tank destroyer, that could explode at any minute, and used the .50 caliber machine gun to continue to lay a withering fire at the enemy, while calling down highly accurate artillery fire against the enemy. He received a further leg wound during this phase of the battle, which LASTED OVER AN HOUR, under constant attack from, as the citation for his Medal of Honor reads, "6 tanks, supported by waves of infantry". When the survivors of his squad regrouped with reinforcements, he personally led a counter-attack that forced an enemy withdrawal. According to his citation, he personally killed more than 50 soldiers in that battle. This only his most notable achievement, by the way; he did similar things (though on a smaller scale) repeatedly in the Italy

* American PFC Jack G. Hanson, with four other men, took on probably hundreds of North Korean soldiers (they were noted to outnumber his company in the MOH citation) to cover his unit's retreat. The four men with him got wounded and evacuated fairly early on, leaving him to stage a one-man rearguard action to protect his platoon. When the North Koreans retreated from that position and the Americans occupied it again two hours later, they found that Hanson had killed at least 22 enemy soldiers with his machine gun, pistol, and a machete (and likely wounded many others), at the cost of his own life.

* Creator/AudieMurphy. While still bandaged from an earlier wound, he was wounded by mortar fragments in two feet of snow at -14F. When the ammunition for his personal weapon ran out, he climbed on a burning tank destroyer, that could explode at any minute, and used the .50 caliber machine gun to continue to lay a withering fire at the enemy, while calling down highly accurate artillery fire against the enemy. He received a further leg wound during this phase of the battle, which LASTED OVER AN HOUR, under constant attack from, as the citation for his Medal of Honor reads, "6 tanks, supported by waves of infantry". When the survivors of his squad regrouped with reinforcements, he personally led a counter-attack that forced an enemy withdrawal. According to his citation, he personally killed more than 50 soldiers in that battle.

* During the 100 day Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, UsefulNotes/SimoHayha of Finland (generally considered to be the greatest sniper the world has ever seen) made over 505 confirmed sniper kills, and is credited for around 200 other kills with a submachine gun, ranking up at least 705 kills to his name. He ended his part in the war after getting shot in the jaw (read: head) with an ''explosive round'' and surviving. After getting shot he was in a coma for a week. The day he woke up is the day the Russians retreated from Finland. Coincidence? He then lived to the age of 97 years old.
** This total is actually very doubtful and outright disproven by Soviet records of losses in the same sector. It turned out to be a work of propaganda: contemporary sources show Hayha being credited with 219 to 259 kills in total, a more reasonable number (and possibly still overstated given the usual fog of war). The 705 figure is likely counting ''all'' kills made by his unit as his own, a common propaganda tactic at the time. Still impressive. His SMG kills may have been significant but are basically impossible to verify and no official figure has ever been given bar offhand guesses. Understandably, it would be hard to determine exactly ''who'' fired the kill shot in most of those cases, since Hayha was always ambushing Soviet troops with a squad behind his back in those instances, all of whom were also spraying SMG fire.
*** While 219 is indeed the number most commonly accepted for his ''confirmed'' kills nowadays, in recent years historians actually discovered a memoir written by the man himself a few months after the end of the Winter War, where he claims that he shot roughly 500 enemies with his rifle. This figure was never verified and had no proof behind it, but it sounded good, which likely made it the source of the later "505+ sniper kills" number bandied around.
*** Artillery strikes managed to tear up his jacket once - and that was about it. That was more effective than the commandos (all of whom he killed) and all but the last counter-sniper (who died like all the others, but did shoot Simo Häyhä in the face before being killed). Think about that: nothing short of being SHOT IN THE FACE even slowed this guy down, and he got better from that. He is reputed to have been disappointed about why he was refused a return to active duty when he woke up: that was the day the war ended.
* Mexican outlaw Augustine Chacon had a habit of going up against more than one gunfighter and always seemingly won. Like one time where a posse followed Chacon's trail to a box canyon, cornered him in and then called out for his surrender, but, the day-old outlaw decided he wasn't going to. Chacon then equipped himself with two revolvers and charged his pursuers on horseback. Four more cowboys were killed and Chacon rode off with a slight wound to one of his arms.

* One of the highest combat kill scores in human history goes to Heinrich Severloh, the everyman German soldier assigned to man WN 62, the machinegun nest that the Americans optimistically codenamed "Easy Red."[[note]] Each of the Normandy landing beaches were divided on Allied maps into sections designated by a radio phonetic alphabet letter ("Easy" being Allied phonetic for E) and a color. Easy Red was the section of Omaha Beach between Easy Green and Fox Green. Utah Beach ran from Able Green to Charlie Red, Omaha Beach from Dog Green to Fox Red, Gold Beach from George Green to Item Red, Juno Beach from Jig Green to Love Red, and Sword Beach from Mike Green to Oboe Red.[[/note]] Firing [[MoreDakka over 12,000 shots from his machinegun]] and 400 shots from two rifles, he managed to rack up between ''1500 and 2500 casualties'' in a single day's fighting, only retreating when all three of his guns failed due to heat warping. His testimony is, however, rather unreliable when one considers that he also claims that there were only 30 Germans defending all of Omaha when his own emplacement alone held 19 men... reliable figures aside, no-one doubts that he caused a 'lot' of casualties. When he was taken prisoner, he was afraid to speak about the battle for decades for fear of retaliation, and the American [=GIs=] and their families simply nicknamed the unknown enemy [[RedBaron "the Beast of Omaha Beach."]]
** However it is hard to say how many people Heinrich Severloh killed, but it was doubtless many, very many as he was a crack gunner and marksman and there were targets aplenty to shoot at.
* 20-year old SS-''Sturmmann'' Anti-Tank Gunner Fritz Christen, 3rd ''Waffen''-SS Division ''Totenkopf'', was left the lone survivor of his AT gun battery after a Soviet counter-attack with tanks and infantry wiped out the rest of the battery on September 24, 1941. He manned his gun for 3 days, fighting with his submachinegun when attacked by infantry, crawling among leftover guns to drag ammo boxes for his weapons, firing at Soviet tanks with his AT gun when they approached. When German reinforcements found him, they counted 13 destroyed tanks and about 100 dead Soviet soldiers.
* During the 100 day Winter War between Finland and the Soviet Union, UsefulNotes/SimoHayha of Finland (generally considered to be the greatest sniper the world has ever seen) made over 505 confirmed sniper kills, and is credited for around 200 other kills with a submachine gun, ranking up at least 705 kills to his name. He ended his part in the war after getting shot in the jaw (read: head) with an ''explosive round'' and surviving. After getting shot he was in a coma for a week. The day he woke up is the day the Russians retreated from Finland. Coincidence? He then lived to the age of 97 years old.
** This total is actually very doubtful and outright disproven by Soviet records of losses in the same sector. It turned out to be a work of propaganda: contemporary sources show Hayha being credited with 219 to 259 kills in total, a more reasonable number (and possibly still overstated given the usual fog of war). The 705 figure is likely counting ''all'' kills made by his unit as his own, a common propaganda tactic at the time. Still impressive. His SMG kills may have been significant but are basically impossible to verify and no official figure has ever been given bar offhand guesses. Understandably, it would be hard to determine exactly ''who'' fired the kill shot in most of those cases, since Hayha was always ambushing Soviet troops with a squad behind his back in those instances, all of whom were also spraying SMG fire.
*** While 219 is indeed the number most commonly accepted for his ''confirmed'' kills nowadays, in recent years historians actually discovered a memoir written by the man himself a few months after the end of the Winter War, where he claims that he shot roughly 500 enemies with his rifle. This figure was never verified and had no proof behind it, but it sounded good, which likely made it the source of the later "505+ sniper kills" number bandied around.
*** Artillery strikes managed to tear up his jacket once - and that was about it. That was more effective than the commandos (all of whom he killed) and all but the last counter-sniper (who died like all the others, but did shoot Simo Häyhä in the face before being killed). Think about that: nothing short of being SHOT IN THE FACE even slowed this guy down, and he got better from that. He is reputed to have been disappointed about why he was refused a return to active duty when he woke up: that was the day the war ended.
* That's compared to another of history's great snipers, Vasily Zaytsev, who while fighting against the Nazis, only managed to rack up a '''''mere''''' 242 confirmed kills to his name. Zaytsev was active on the front for the very short time, basically less than half a year. Remember, he wasn't an infantryman, he was a Marine, and he was transferred to Stalingrad from the Pacific Fleet only in Summer 1942. By the end of the summer, he was raking kills so quickly that the Soviet media made him a poster boy of all snipers in the army, despite his relatively average kill count. In the end, the brass realized that they [[SlaveToPR couldn't risk him getting killed on the front due to the effect it would have on morale]] and recalled him to Moscow, where he helped organize sniper schools and served as an [[VeteranInstructor instructor]]. Soviet snipers in general, because of the desperate conditions they fought in and how long the brass kept them at the front, tended to rack up enormous kill counts far in excess of other Allied forces, who rotated their snipers through combat zones.
** There's also the Soviet UsefulNotes/WorldWarII sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, the most accomplished known female sniper in history with 309 kills, including 36 German snipers sent with [[AssassinOutclassin specific orders to kill her]].
** And those are just the most famous ones. Other Soviet snipers credited with 100+ kills include [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Adamia Noah Adamia]] (200), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedir_Dyachenko Fedir Dyachenko]] (425), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Okhlopkov Fyodor Okhlopkov]] (429), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sidorenko Ivan Sidorenko]] (500), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abukhadzhi_Idrisov Abukhadzhi Idrisov]] (349), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Nomokonov Semyon Nomokonov]] (367), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilij_Kvachantiradze Vasilij Kvachantiradze]] (534), and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Surkov Mikhail Surkov]] (Officially credited with 702; this is likely propaganda, but there is no doubt he killed many enemy soldiers).
** All World War II era kill claims, of course, should be taken with a big grain of salt. While the methods and technology used to count kills became much more accurate in the latter half of the 20th century, it was shown that on an operational level, World War II era enemies consistently overestimated enemy losses by a factor of three. This was probably even worse on a personal level.
* The first time the German Army encountered a T-34 tank during Operation Barbarossa near the Dniepr river, it was like nothing they had ever seen. A [=PaK=] 36 anti-tank gun was brought up to engage it. It [[TheJuggernaut advanced through the gun's fire, ignoring it entirely]], and [[CarFu crushed it underneath its treads]]. It then engaged and destroyed two Panzer [=IIs=] of the 17th Panzer Division before proceeding to carve a nine-mile swath through the rest of the German forces sent to destroy it. Finally, the Germans managed to get a howitzer behind it and destroy it at close range. From the German report:
-->''Half a dozen anti-tank gun fire shells at him which sound like a drumroll. But he drives staunchly through our line like an impregnable prehistoric monster...''
** It says a lot when the highest-scoring Allied tank ace of the whole war, Dmitry Lavrinenko, scored his 52-58 kills [[CurbStompCushion over the course of the disastrous Autumn 1941]], by exploiting the fact that T-34 was a LightningBruiser before the LensmanArmsRace took effect.
** The Germans had an even nastier surprise when they met the TonkaTough Kliment Voroshilov (KV) heavy tanks, especially the massive KV-2, which mounted an enormous [[{{BFG}} 152mm anti-fortification howitzer]] and was nicknamed "Dreadnought". When the 6th Panzer Division established a bridgehead on the Dubsya River, ''one'' KV-2 held the entire division off for a day. It wasn't destroyed either - it retreated when it ran out of ammunition. (This event was the basis for the infamous ''Raseiniai Heroes'' medal in ''VideoGame/WorldOfTanks''.) The identity of the specific tank and crew involved has been lost to history, but it picked up the nickname "Monster of Raseiniai".[[note]]There's also some dispute about whether it was a KV-2 the preceding KV-1, but what records exist indicate a crew of 6, while the KV-1 had room only for 5.[[/note]]
** Its more conventionally-armed (76 mm cannon) cousin, the KV-1, was no slouch either. Senior Lieutenant Kolobanov had five of them, [[LetsSplitUpGang and three roads to cover]]. He sent off the two pairs to cover the less risky ones, [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking then dug in to guard the third by his lonesome]], aided by the fact that the road was surrounded by swamps on either side. Then roughly 22 Panzers (likely Czech-made) showed up. The Soviets hit the leading tank and the rear tank and then went to work on the sitting ducks... MookHorrorShow and CurbStompBattle ensued, during which the Kliment Voroshilov tank [[NoSell no-selled]], by various accounts, 135 to 156 direct hits. You may have heard of ''Kolobanov's Medal'' in the same game mentioned above. While this was an extreme example, in the initial months of the German invasion it was common for a KV-1 to end up with dozens of dents in its armor from ricocheted German shells but otherwise come back completely unharmed.

** Mexican outlaw Augustine Chacon had a habit of going up against more than one gunfighter and always seemingly won. Like one time where a posse followed Chacon's trail to a box canyon, cornered him in and then called out for his surrender, but, the day-old outlaw decided he wasn't going to. Chacon then equipped himself with two revolvers and charged his pursuers on horseback. Four more cowboys were killed and Chacon rode off with a slight wound to one of his arms.
* Not so much a god of war, but they didn't call Masutatsu Oyama "The Godhand" for nothing. Able to kill a bull with one bare-handed strike (on the times he had to "settle for" two blows, he often chopped off one of their horns), he also engaged in [[http://www.masutatsuoyama.com/100mankumite.htm 300 fights]] with the best students of his dojo in a row over the course of 3 days, stopped only because everyone else's asses were so thoroughly kicked that they couldn't or wouldn't continue.
* UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi gained his reputation after pulling one of these on the entire Yoshioka school. After he beat its two heirs in one-on-one combat, the entire school attacked him with bowmen, gunmen, and swords. Musashi ambushed them, killed their figurehead leader and got away.
* Similarly, there was UsefulNotes/MusashiboBenkei, whose fighting prowess was considered borderline demonic, as he also stood at a towering 6'7". After [[DefeatMeansFriendship being defeated by Minamoto no Yoshitsune]], he became a loyal retainer. So loyal, in fact, that he held the bridge to a castle his master had fled to [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled to commit seppuku]], killing over 300 enemy soldiers that attempted to pass and forced the army he faced to shoot arrows at him instead. By the time they worked up the nerve to approach, Yoshitsune had completed the suicide, and Benkei himself had DiedStandingUp, held there by his naginata and [[HumanPincushion the innumerable arrows they'd shot at him]].
* If the official record of the eight-hour [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Shewan Battle of Shewan, Afghanistan]] is to be believed, an individual U.S. Marine designated marksman (not a sniper) went 20 for 20 -- 20 kills with 20 shots -- while his platoon and three Afghan police squads were fighting off a company-sized Taliban ambush.
* Creator/AudieMurphy. While still bandaged from an earlier wound, he was wounded by mortar fragments in two feet of snow at -14F. When the ammunition for his personal weapon ran out, he climbed on a burning tank destroyer, that could explode at any minute, and used the .50 caliber machine gun to continue to lay a withering fire at the enemy, while calling down highly accurate artillery fire against the enemy. He received a further leg wound during this phase of the battle, which LASTED OVER AN HOUR, under constant attack from, as the citation for his Medal of Honor reads, "6 tanks, supported by waves of infantry". When the survivors of his squad regrouped with reinforcements, he personally led a counter-attack that forced an enemy withdrawal. According to his citation, he personally killed more than 50 soldiers in that battle.
** He also had malaria since the Italian campaign. Didn't get it cured until after the war was over.
** In the film adaptation (called ''To Hell And Back'') he played himself, and he asked for some parts of the film to be removed because [[RealityIsUnrealistic "people wouldn't believe it"]]. We're talking about a biographic movie.
* Sergeant [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York Alvin York]] singlehandedly wiped out a German machine gun nest in WW I, making the leader of that nest and his men (according to Cracked.com, 133 people) surrender to him.

* American Tony Stein from World War II is famous for two things: [[MoreDakka his improvised Browning M1919 rifle]] and how he received the Medal Of Honor for taking out immense amounts of Japanese forces with it, while running all over the battlefield, barefoot, and carrying back the wounded soldiers.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudel Hans Rudel]], Stuka dive bomber pilot of the Luftwaffe, is probably responsible for the single-handed destruction of more stuff than any other person in history. He destroyed over 2000 targets, including, but not limited to, 519 tanks, 150 artillery pieces, a destroyer, two cruisers, and a battleship. He also shot down 11 planes.

* On one side: forty armed thieves, robbing, pillaging, and raping on a Nepalese train. On the other side: one retired [[UsefulNotes/NepaliWithNastyKnives Gurkha with a kukri]]. [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html They shoulda brought more thieves.]]
** Well, each Gurkha is a one-man army. A ''regiment'' of Gurkhas is more than sufficient reason to say "ScrewThisImOuttaHere"
*** Also from [[strike:Gurkha]] Badass Of The Week: [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/pun.html Dipprasad Pun]].

* Captain Benjamin L. Salomon earned a posthumous Medal of Honor during the Battle of Saipan. Among other things, he took on four Japanese soldiers at once, and as his citation stated, he "kicked the knife out of the hand of one, shot another, and bayoneted a third. Captain Salomon butted the fourth enemy soldier in the stomach and a wounded comrade then shot and killed the enemy soldier." Later on, he took over a machine gun whose crew had been killed to cover the withdrawal of wounded Americans. When his body was found after the battle, almost 100 enemy soldiers were in front of his machine gun.
** He had been shot fifty times.
** Oh, and by the way, he was a dentist.

* Now for a one ''plane'' army, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_666 Old 666]], a [=B-17E=] Bomber. For short, we'll only give you its most infamous mission, a mapping mission of Bougain Island. With 22 minutes still on the clock and no fighter escort, Old 666 got ambushed by at the very least 17 Japanese fighters (15 [=A6M=] Zeroes and 2 [=Ki-46=] Dinahs). Old 666 then proceeded to ''dogfight them for said 22 minutes''. Let me say this again, a ''heavy bomber'' in a dogfight with 17 Japanese fighters. Until they ran out of fuel and/or ammo, having taken down many of them in the ensuing dogfight. Bombers aren't even meant to dogfight (though American ones where usually bristling with flexibly-mounted Browning .50s to fire everywhere at once) and this one takes 17 fighters on.
** Ironically, the bomber didn't really kill that many of the fighters (One Dinah and at least 3 of the Zeros), but, what makes her famous is that the ''ENTIRE'' crew got at least the Distinguished Flying Cross, while the Pilot (Jay Zeemer), and the Bombardier (Joe Sarnoski) were both awarded the Medal of Honor [[note]] Joe Sarnoski's was posthumous [[/note]].
** The bomber itself was also one-plane-air-force for the other missions it flew. It bristled with seven extra .50cals compared to a standard B-17E at the time. While adding extra guns was common practice, one of those guns was wired to the pilots control yoke... so Jay Zeemer had a gun to shoot with. These were all added because [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor the crew wanted to take on the missions no one else would fly.]] These included a Skip bombing mission on a carrier [[note]] B-17s normally drop their bombs from an altitude of 10,000ft or higher [[/note]], a low-altitude raid on Rabaul Island, and a ''diving'' attack on Japanese search-lights during a night raid… all these were things that the B-17s smaller cousins like the B-25 Mitchel were used for, and yet, this crew did them anyway.
* The ''USS Enterprise'' CV-06 can qualify as a one ship navy. Especially during the period of 30 October 1942 to 27 May 1943 where it served as the only operation US carrier in the Pacific after the loss of the ''Hornet'' in the Battle of Santa Cruz. At the start of the period, the ship sailed out into action with a placard on its deck labeled "Enterprise vs Japan." (The Enterprise won) During this period the ship sank a Japanese battleship and sixteen other ships while crippling 8 more.
* Lachhiman Gurung. He's credited with a mere 31 kills, but considering he racked those up with a bolt-action rifle, firing one-handed, immediately after losing an eye and an arm to a hand grenade...
* Stanley "Swede" Vejtasa, an American bomber pilot during the Second World War; took down three Japanese Zeroes whilst flying a ''Dauntless''[[note]]a large and somewhat unwieldy dive bomber, not a fighter[[/note]] - one of which tried to ram him. He would then go on to shoot down another seven planes whilst flying a ''Wildcat'' in the Battle of Santa Cruz [[note]]at the time, a somewhat outdated and outclassed fighter craft[[/note]].

* The top ranking World War II flying aces according to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_flying_aces this]]. The one who scored the most kills that was finally himself killed in battle was Otto Kittel.
* The famous RedBaron got the most kills of any flying ace in World War I, with eighty. He did eventually die in battle, though. In World War II, his record was beaten by [[SerialEscalation over a hundred people.]]
** For a fair comparison, they had modern fighter jets. He had a Sopwith Camel (biplane).
* Besides UsefulNotes/SimoHayha, there was Ivan Sidorenko, who had about 500 confirmed kills, the most of any soldier on the Allied side. Noah Adamia is worth noting, in that he was the most prolific sniper (with about 300 kills) to actually die in battle.

* A Two Man Army example: American sniper CarlosHathcock and spotter Johnny Burke were on a mission behind enemy lines in the Vietnam War when they encountered a company of NVA soldiers (about 80 men) marching across a rice field. Hathcock and Burke each shot one of the officers, and the NVA soldiers, instead of running for the nearest forest, tried to hide behind a small embankment about 1000 meters from any more good cover. The two Americans picked off the NVA soldiers at long range for five days before calling in an artillery strike on the few remaining NVA soldiers. Only one Vietnamese soldier survived.

** New Mexico lawman Elfego Baca got pinned down by a gang of 200 cowboys inside a wooden house and killed 4 of them before the gang finally retreated.

* The Viking at Stamford Bridge. This was a huge, nameless warrior clad in chain mail, a helmet with a nose guard and an axe who stepped up to cover regrouping of Harald Hårdråde's forces after they were ambushed without their armor and pushed into retreat by King Harold Godwinson, the Saxon king during the time. The Norsemen fled across a bridge (later dubbed Stamford Bridge although a bridge by that name didn't exist at the time) to provide a choke point so the English army wouldn't be able to surround them with their metaphorical pants down. Then this man volunteered to stand alone on a bridge wide enough for three men to cross, facing an army thousands strong and ''held''. He stood alone for hours, fighting back against the Saxon horde, killing 40 men and wounding untold numbers. Presumably, the Vikings were too busy standing in awe of him to realize they should be using this opportunity to run because they were still there when the Saxons finally broke through. Oh, and the kicker? he was brought down (according to legend) by an intrepid Saxon soldier who hopped in the river, floated under the bridge and stabbed him in the groin (which based on his exploits presumably provided a pretty damn big target).

** This total is actually very doubtful and outright disproven by Soviet records of losses in the same sector. It turned out to be a work of propaganda: contemporary sources show Hayha being credited with 219 kills in total, a more reasonable number (and possibly still overstated). The 705 figure is likely counting ''all'' kills made by his unit as his own, a common propaganda tactic at the time. Still impressive. His SMG kills may have been significant but are basically impossible to verify and no official figure has ever been given bar offhand guesses. Understandably, it would be hard to determine exactly ''who'' fired the kill shot in most of those cases, since Hayha was always ambushing Soviet troops with a squad behind his back in those instances, all of whom were also spraying SMG fire.
*** While 219 is indeed the number most commonly accepted for his ''confirmed'' kills nowadays, it's also pretty often agreed that he could have had a lot more unconfirmed ones. In recent years historians actually discovered a memoir written by the man himself a few months after the end of the Winter War, where he claims that he shot roughly 500 enemies with his rifle. While this is obviously just his own opinion on the matter, when you consider the man's personality and the fact that this piece was never intended for any sort of publication (it was discovered on total accident), it's probably safe to assume that the figure wasn't exaggerated.
** His nickname throughout the ''entire'' Russian Army was "The White Death." Their attempted solution to his problem: launch artillery at where they thought he was. And even ''that'' didn't bring him down completely.

* The ''USS-Enterprise'' CV-06 can qualify as a one ship navy. Especially during the period of 30 October 1942 to 27 May 1943 where it served as the only operation US carrier in the Pacific after the loss of the ''Hornet'' in the Battle of Santa Cruz. At the start of the period, the ship sailed out into action with a placard on its deck labeled "Enterprise vs Japan."(the Enterprise won) During this period the ship sank a Japanese battleship and sixteen other ships while crippling 8 more.