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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 ...
Debris from the North Tower also fell onto the nearby 7 World Trade Center building, causing it to catch fire and eventually collapse. In total, 2,753 people died in the New York City attacks.
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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 ]
The Law & Order: Organized Crime family is suffering a devastating loss, after a crew member was gunned down in the early hours Tuesday.In a statement to ET, the New York Police Department says ...
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Investigators believe the body parts found last week and the human remains discovered Tuesday belong to the same victims. One of the victims, a 59-year-old woman, has been identified, police said.