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Zaitsev, left, in Stalingrad, December 1942 Zaitsev's sniper rifle, a 7.62×54mmR Mosin Model 1891/30 sniper rifle with a PU 3.5× sniper scope on display at the Volgograd's Stalingrad Panorama Museum. Zaitsev was serving in the Soviet Navy as a clerk in Vladivostok when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Like many of his ...
After that, she joined Vasily Zaitsev's sniper school and trained as a sniper. The group of snipers that Zaitsev formed was called "The Hares". Chernova participated in a raid on a German headquarters after which she and the rest of the Hares claimed to have killed Germans by picking off guards one by one. Tania claimed she had killed 24 soldiers.
König is mentioned both in Zaitsev's memoirs Notes of a Sniper (a "Major Konings", potentially SS) and William Craig's 1973 non-fiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad. [4] According to Zaitsev, his duel with König took place over a period of three days in the ruins of Stalingrad . [ 1 ]
A mother and daughter were killed during a home invasion in New Jersey, and the suspect is the father of the younger victim's son. Marisol Nunez, 54, and her daughter Catherine Nunez, 33, were ...
PHOTO: Police are on the scene of an incident at UPMC Memorial Hospital, Feb. 22, 2025, in York, Pa. (Harrison Jones/York Daily Record via USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
Brooklyn woman shot and killed by boyfriend was trying to leave him, was blasted in front of her daughter, sister says Emma Seiwell, Leonard Greene, New York Daily News Updated July 21, 2023 at 4: ...
A Hollywood film called Enemy at the Gates was made about Vasily Zaitsev, a Soviet sniper who fought in the Battle of Stalingrad. The plot of the movie is based on a section in the eponymous book by William Craig, which fictionalizes an alleged duel between Zaitsev and a (possibly) fictional German sniper called Major König.
Police made the grisly discovery around 2:35 p.m. at the apartment on New York Ave. near Avenue D in East ... Mother, teen daughter and dog killed in Brooklyn apartment: ‘What I heard was ...