Word: snipering
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...details about his wound. A doctor told him a bullet had penetrated his helmet above his left ear, creased his scalp and passed out of the helmet above his right ear. Then Korineck remembered something more important than treatment: "Call the sergeant right away," he shouted. "Tell him that sniper is right where we thought...
...side street held by the Russians. "Will the Soviet Command receive emissaries to discuss negotiations?" he asked. Red Army Major Belousov agreed and walked with the Germans toward their lines, trailed by a Russian soldier with a field telephone. Suddenly a shot cracked out. Belousov dropped with a Nazi sniper's bullet through his head...
...infantrymen went after them with some new ideas. On Luzon they had discovered that the 90-mm. antiaircraft gun, with its high muzzle velocity and flat trajectory, makes an excellent cave-closing weapon. When the gun is brought into position, its accurate sights permit gunners to draw a sniper's bead on cave mouths thousands of yards away. In twelve days two guns closed over 100 caves on Balete Pass; one cave later yielded 23 Japs, dead of suffocation...
...week. The number of captured, greatly swollen by Volksstürmer, was rapidly nearing 1,000,000 since April 1. Yet some did choose death. In Leipzig, the U.S. First Army discovered a grotesque tableau of suicide in the City Hall (see FOREIGN NEWS ). And there was a young sniper captured in Leipzig who talked himself into self-slaughter...
Blond, pudgy, slack-mouthed, sullen and mean-eyed, the sniper ranted about the disgrace of capture, said he would rather have died for his Führer. An American lieutenant, one of whose men had been killed by these snipers, handed him a .45 automatic with one cartridge in the chamber. The German looked at the G.I.s who had him covered with rifles. Then he put the pistol's heavy muzzle to the soft spot under his right ear and pulled the trigger. One of the G.I.s said: "First he surrenders and then he shoots himself...