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WW1

1. Francis Pegahmagabow / Country: Kanada / Total Kill: 378


2. Billy Sing / Ülke: Avustralya / Toplam Öldürme: 150
3. Henry Norwest / Ülke: Kanada / Toplam Öldürme: 115


WW2

1. Simo Hayha / Ülke: Finlandiya / Toplam Öldürme: 542


2. Ivan Sidorenko / Ülke: Rusya / Toplam Öldürme: 500
3. Nikolay Yakovlevich Ilyin / Ülke: Rusya / Toplam Öldürme: 496


Lady Snipers

1. Lyudmila M. Pavlichenko / Ülke: Rusya / Toplam Öldürme: 309


2. Inna Semyonovna Mudretsova / Ülke: Rusya / Toplam Öldürme: 143
3. Tatiana Igantovna Kostyrina / Ülke: Rusya / Toplam Öldürme: 120

In WW2 women snipers killed 1225 soldiers. The number is for certain/substantiated deads.

Vietnam War

1. Adelbert Waldron III / Ülke: Amerika / Toplam Öldürme: 109
2. Charles B. Mawhinney / Ülke: Amerika / Toplam Öldürme: 103
3. Eric R. England / Ülke: Amerika / Toplam Öldürme: 98

US soldiers made 200.000 shot to kill one Vietkongian. US snipers made 1.7 shot for it. It is --200.000 vs 1.7--

The word "sniper" comes from snipe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe




Sniper works alone, except US snipers.

Ray

The US snipers don't operate alone?

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Sir, it's usually a two man team and they act more as recee than independent forces of opportunity.

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Semper Fi

I think Carlos Hathcock got more kills for a Sniper in Nam then anyone else. Supposily he killed alot more then his official count.

leib10

93 confirmed kills, probably over 200 unconfirmed.

Finnish sniper Simo Hayha is the highest scoring sniper of all time, with anywhere from 500-600 kills made during the Russo-Finnish War.

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leib10

One man takes the role of spotter (often armed with an M14 or M4 and equipped with a spotting scope) and the other of sniper. These roles are interchangable between men.

Anon

Nope.

Anon

He had around 300 probables.

But 'only' the 93 confirmeds.

Quite frankly, it boggles the mind. That's a lot of people to see staring back at you in your dreams.

Rifleman

Chuck Mawhinney is credited with 216 probables in addition to his 103 confirmed.

Here's a link with a little information about Eric England. He, like Adelbert Waldron, deserves to be better known.

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/lds1952/index.html

If you scroll down and look at the photo on the right side of the page you see England (facing camera) getting an award. The two men to the left (England's right) are former Georgia Governor Zell Miller and Jim Land, Hathcock's commander in Vietnam.

The photo at the bottom left of the page is another one of Governor Miller and England.

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sappersgt

My CO said he quit counting at around 220. He said it served no purpose (his advice to me).

Rifleman

A little more information about Eric England that some of you may find interesting.

http://www.unionsentinel.com/news/20..._Page/002.html

-{SpoonmaN}-

That's what I tell people who talk about joining up to become snipers. For some reason there's this really weird sniper-cult that the civilian public seem to fall into where they think its some sort of glamourous job. It's especially funny when people tell me they think it'd be easy.
Idiots.
Oh and no offence snipe, I blame Tom Berenger.

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YellowFever

You forgot this board's own M21sniper.

He takes out about 3 or 4 Liberals and/or Trolls a week around here.

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zraver

Sgt Alvin C York, his marksmanship was so good an entire German company surrended. Offical sniper or not.........

Sgt York, December 13, 1887 – September 2, 1964) was a United States soldier, famous for his heroism in World War I. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for leading an attack on a German machine-gun nest, killing 32 German soldiers and capturing 132 others as well as knocking out 35 German machine guns, completely overtaking a German controlled hill.

all in a single days work

That one battle won him...
The Congressional Medal of Honor -USA
Croix de Guerre - France
Croce di Guerra - Italy
War Medal - Montenegro

He also took out a German patrol by picking them off one at a time, working from the rear of the enemy patrol line to the front. IIRC he neve rmissed a shot in combat and did all his shooting over open sites

Anon

That movie was hideously bad.

Anyway, sniping is actually mind-numbingly boring the overwhelming majority of the time.