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Hetzenauer preferred a K98k Mauser rifle with a six-powered scope, while many German snipers preferred a four-powered scope on the Mauser. Both were fortunate to have endured the war at all because of the traditional heavy loss of snipers and the nature of the four-year-long bloodbath on the Eastern Front that took millions of lives on both sides. But it was Hetzenauer, the highest scoring Axis sniper of the war, who left more detailed information on sniper techniques, training, and tactics-all told after he endured five years of captivity and forced labor at the hands of the Soviets. Sepp Allerberger modified an umbrella to hold brush collected on site to hide his position.Īllerberger, perhaps, left a more compelling firsthand account than Hetzenauer, who has been credited with 346 official kills, some 89 more than his fellow Austrian. Somewhere in France a well-camouflaged German sniper peers through the scope of his rifle. Most snipers, like Finland’s Simo Hayha-dubbed “White Death” for his more than 505 confirmed kills in the Winter War just prior to the start of World War II-were reluctant to discuss their work which many considered underhanded or unmanly. And their sniper totals did not include scores and scores of Soviets who fell to their rapid-fire machine pistol efforts during numerous determined and often foolish Russian frontal assaults.īoth young Austrians received the prestigious Knight’s Cross for their efforts, and unlike most snipers they left rather detailed descriptions of their work on the Eastern Front. During the American Civil War, Union General John Sedgwick fatally fell to a sniper’s round at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House just after he remarkably stated the enemy “couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance.”Īllerberger and Matthaus Hetzenauer, another skilled Austrian sniper in the same division, were officially credited with killing more than 600 enemy soldiers during the Soviet advance toward Berlin in the latter stages of World War II. For example, the course of the crucial Battle of Saratoga in the American Revolution was dramatically changed when an American sniper killed British General Simon Fraser at a distance of some 300 yards. Snipers have often been “force multipliers” in warfare with their ability to take out key military leaders or crucial signal and communications officers. The History of Military Snipers in Wartime Engagements His timely, well-aimed bullet negated the Soviets’ heavy initial advantage in firepower and maneuverability. The battle might have gone the other way had it not been for the young 19-year-old Austrian sniper who singlehandedly changed the course of the engagement by likely taking out the commander of the three tanks. The tanks lobbed a few shots toward the German positions, but after a few minutes they gunned their engines and left the field to the exposed and largely doomed Soviet riflemen who did not fare well against the well-entrenched Germans. That single shot marked the beginning of yet another wild melee on the Eastern Front. A splat of blood hit the hatch as the head sank into the bowels of the tank. Sniper Josef “Sepp” Allerberger brought the Soviet tanker’s head into the center of his scope, and at some 500 feet he squeezed off a round. Suddenly, the lead tank’s hatch opened about 10 inches and a head appeared with binoculars to scan the scene.
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RIGHT: Finnish sniper Simo Hayha was nicknamed “White Death” and killed more than 500 Soviet soldiers during the Winter War prior to the outbreak of World War II. Along with fellow sniper Josef “Sepp” Allerberger, the two were responsible for approximately 600 kills.
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LEFT: German sniper Matthaus Hetzenauer was credited with killing dozens of Soviet soldiers on the Eastern Front. They lacked air support there as the Soviets mounted a heavy attack in mid-August 1943 along the length of the Donets Front in eastern Ukraine. All the German sniper had were his wits and his bolt-action Mauser rifle against the three steel titans that loomed in front of them with scores of Red Army soldiers trailing. The Wehrmacht troops were in a precarious situation.
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The lead tank suddenly clanked to a stop and swung its long barrel around.
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The three Soviet T-34 tanks edged forward slowly as the drivers scanned for the concealed Germans that lay ahead.
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