The term "sniper" comes from how hard it is to shoot the snipe bird.
Jack Hinson was a Civil War sniper who slayed over 100 Union soldiers, taking down whole gun boats and battalions by himself.
Canadian Indigenous soldier Francis "Peggy" Pegahmagabow was the most effective sniper of World War I, with a kill record of 378 Germans. He volunteered for service despite the Canada government's exclusion of minorities in the army. Peggy once ran into No-Mans Land to retrieve ammo when his company ran out. He remains the most decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian history.
German Snipers in World War I had excellent observational training and killed hundreds of enemy officers. They could identify British officers at hundreds of yards simply by the cut of their breeches.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko (July 12, 1916 – October 10, 1974) of the Soviet Union was the most successful female sniper in history with 309 credited kills during World War II. Pavlichenko, couldn't pull the trigger on her first kill, until she saw a German shooting a young Russian soldier.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko toured the US in 1942 to gain support for a second front in Nazi-occupied Europe; the press was more interested in her appearance and if she wore make-up on the front lines.
When she was a young woman, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer once lived in Israel. There, she was a trained sniper. She was so adept at handling a Sten gun — a British submachine gun — that she could quickly assemble one while blindfolded.
In 2014 a British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded.
The longest confirmed sniper kill in combat was achieved during the Iraq Civil War by an undisclosed member of the Canadian JTF2 special forces in June 2017 at a distance of 3,540 m (2,21 miles).The bullet took over 9 seconds to reach its target.
Sniper schools use brain games such as ‘Kim's Game’ where items on a tray are memorized for one minute, covered and recalled to train their situational awareness skills.
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| German sniper in Stalingrad, Soviet Union (1942). By Bundesarchiv, Bild |
Jack Hinson was a Civil War sniper who slayed over 100 Union soldiers, taking down whole gun boats and battalions by himself.
Canadian Indigenous soldier Francis "Peggy" Pegahmagabow was the most effective sniper of World War I, with a kill record of 378 Germans. He volunteered for service despite the Canada government's exclusion of minorities in the army. Peggy once ran into No-Mans Land to retrieve ammo when his company ran out. He remains the most decorated Indigenous soldier in Canadian history.
German Snipers in World War I had excellent observational training and killed hundreds of enemy officers. They could identify British officers at hundreds of yards simply by the cut of their breeches.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko (July 12, 1916 – October 10, 1974) of the Soviet Union was the most successful female sniper in history with 309 credited kills during World War II. Pavlichenko, couldn't pull the trigger on her first kill, until she saw a German shooting a young Russian soldier.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko toured the US in 1942 to gain support for a second front in Nazi-occupied Europe; the press was more interested in her appearance and if she wore make-up on the front lines.
In 2014 a British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded.
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| A sniper and spotter team in Afghanistan |
The longest confirmed sniper kill in combat was achieved during the Iraq Civil War by an undisclosed member of the Canadian JTF2 special forces in June 2017 at a distance of 3,540 m (2,21 miles).The bullet took over 9 seconds to reach its target.
Sniper schools use brain games such as ‘Kim's Game’ where items on a tray are memorized for one minute, covered and recalled to train their situational awareness skills.
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