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The sergeant who eliminated 33 snipers in World War II
In May 1941, during the German invasion of Crete in World War II, Sergeant Alfred Clive Hume of New Zealand made a decision that would alter the survival of his battalion. As German Fallschirmjäger ...
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Snipers of Stalingrad: The hidden war that broke Hitler’s 6th Army
When German bombers reduced Stalingrad to rubble in 1942, they unknowingly created the perfect battlefield for snipers.
WW2 introduced rugged telescopic scopes that held zero after repeated firing and withstood battlefield conditions. Standardized match-grade barrels and quality ammunition made precision reproducible ...
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