He was saved by a Jersey family after escaping a Nazi labour camp, but after the war he disappeared in the Soviet Union.

Simo Häyhä, the Finnish sniper who killed hundreds of Soviets during the Winter War, aiming his rifle while wearing his winter camouflage. (Wikimedia Commons) The Soviet soldiers never saw him. Their ...

FILE - Irv Pankey, of the Los Angeles Rams football team shows a Polaroid he took to Soviet soldiers in East Berlin, Germany, Sunday, August 5, 1990. (AP Photo/Arne Dedert, File) DUESSELDORF, Germany ...

On March 24, 1985, a Soviet sentry shot and killed U.S. Army Maj. Arthur D. "Nick" Nicholson. He was the last American killed in the line of duty during the Cold War. The U.S. Department of War ...