PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoSimo Hayha, "The White Death", Finland, Winter War, 1940lemmy.worldimagemessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1146arrow-down10
arrow-up1146arrow-down1imageSimo Hayha, "The White Death", Finland, Winter War, 1940lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-squaresolsangraallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·7 hours agoif you like snipers, see also carlos hathcock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock the movie trope of a sniper’s shot going through another sniper’s scope into his eye–hathcock did that
minus-squareP00ptart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 hours agoHe was also the grandfather of the .50 sniper rifle, because he mounted a sniper scope onto an M2 .50 machine gun. His biography is insane, the stuff he managed to live through is unreal.
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoIs he the one that sighted in on a boulder to get everything zeroed, only to have a VC spotter setup on his boulder…?
if you like snipers, see also carlos hathcock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Hathcock
the movie trope of a sniper’s shot going through another sniper’s scope into his eye–hathcock did that
He was also the grandfather of the .50 sniper rifle, because he mounted a sniper scope onto an M2 .50 machine gun.
His biography is insane, the stuff he managed to live through is unreal.
Is he the one that sighted in on a boulder to get everything zeroed, only to have a VC spotter setup on his boulder…?