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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 ]
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 ...
On Dec. 18, 2024, a week after Brooks died, New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision Commissioner Daniel Martuscello alerted his staff about the investigation into Brooks ...
Jones killed himself with a gunshot to the head on the stoop of his own home, police said. It was his birthday. Priscilla Figueroa said the victim’s daughter saw the tragedy unfold.
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 ...
On March 12, 1911, a 13-year-old boy named Andriy Yushchinskyi disappeared on his way to school. Eight days later, his mutilated body was discovered in a cave near the Zaitsev brick factory. Beilis was arrested on July 21, 1911, after a lamplighter testified that the boy had been kidnapped by a Jew.
Sarah Jones, 42, and 15-year-old passenger, Kale Olson, were killed in a crash on Interstate 94 on Nov. 30. Tribute to mother and daughter killed in I-94 crash; police appeal for information Skip ...