@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 13 hours agoSimo Hayha, "The White Death", Finland, Winter War, 1940lemmy.worldmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up1160
arrow-up1160imageSimo Hayha, "The White Death", Finland, Winter War, 1940lemmy.world@[email protected]M to [email protected]English • 13 hours agomessage-square12fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish13•12 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•10 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish4•7 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…?