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Erwin König was reported to have been a German Heer Officer in the Wehrmacht the regular military of Germany or was an Officer in the Waffen-SS who was a sniper killed by the Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev during the Battle of Stalingrad.
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 ...
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Jon Kopaloff/Getty; Courtesy Lane Family. Evan Lysacek (left) and Christine and Spencer Lane, who were killed in the Wednesday, Jan. 29, plane crash in Washington, D.C.
Zaitsev became a flying ace by September 1941, and in January 1942 he was nominated for his first gold star for having engaged in 46 dogfights and shot down 12 enemy aircraft. The tally stated by his award nomination sheet indicated he had the second-highest number of victories in 1941 of any Soviet pilot, behind only Boris Safonov .
A 78-year-old was found dead in her Washington home after she didn’t show at an airport to pick her daughter up, her family said. “They took away my heart, my rock, my soul, and I don’t know ...
Vasily Zaitsev may refer to: Vasily Zaitsev (pilot) (1910–1961), Soviet World War II flying ace; Vasily Zaitsev (sniper) (1915–1991), Soviet World War II sniper