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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.
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 ...
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 ]
Berrios and her mother, Desiree Berrios, daughter to Acosta and sister to Martinez, found the victims on Saturday afternoon. “We’re trying to do our best to stay united as a family,” said ...
Nordquist arrived in Canandaigua near the Finger Lakes region of New York in September and was reported missing months later on Feb. 9 after New York State Police said he lost contact with loved ones.
Just a few hours before a Modesto man allegedly killed his 8-year-old daughter, a judge approved a restraining order to protect her and her mother from him.
Vasily Zaitsev (sniper) (1915–1991), Soviet World War II sniper This page was last edited on 8 September 2024, at 21:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
A 17-year-old Brooklyn girl fatally shot in the head inside a Queens home, allegedly by another teen, had presented a school project on the dangers of gun violence shortly before her untimely ...