PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agoSimo Hayha, "The White Death", Finland, Winter War, 1940lemmy.worldimagemessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1145arrow-down10
arrow-up1145arrow-down1imageSimo Hayha, "The White Death", Finland, Winter War, 1940lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 hours agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squaresolsangraal@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 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-up6·7 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.
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.