Does anyone know which American had the most kills and the role American snipers played in the war?

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I'm researching about german snipers and I've gone through a lot of sniper material. Yet I don't think I even have seen an american name of a sniper. There's little known about ww2 snipers in general but I think if an american sniper managed to become famous during ww2 it would have been in the pacific. I'll look through my books and see if I can dig something up. [img]smile.gif[/img]

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[ 10. December 2002, 08:06 PM: Message edited by: charlie don't surf ]

Thanks. I've never read anything either that suggest we even used snipers as one would assume a sniper is used.

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Hi again! What I found was that there was a good sniper at Okinawa, private James Cass. He managed to take out a jap machinegun crew at the range of 1200 yards. Before the war there was only one sniper school at Camp Perry and the training there was inadequate, the number of skilled snipers were low as were the interest in sniping. I guess this was the reason why there weren't any famous american snipers. If they became famous they would most probably be in the pacific.

I will soon recieve some Gun magazines from world war two, I know that there's a sniper article about Sicily in it. I'll let you know if I find anything.

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[ 11. December 2002, 04:16 AM: Message edited by: charlie don't surf ]

Thanks. Good info.

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Kai had posted an excellent site dealing with the snipers with the most kills. It was I think in the topic about the great Finnish Sniper (I cant spell his name) who recently passed away. See if you can find it or ask Kai to repost that sites URL for you.

Also, top German Snipers were Matthias Hetzenhauer 352 kills, Sepp Allerberger with I think over 250++ kills.

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Sure there are lists of snipers on the internet but you won't find any American there, altough there's a Canadian with 9 confirmed kills- James Bedford MacArthur. Allerberger had 257 confirmed kills. The Finns name is Simo Häyhä, he has the highest record for a sniper and he didn't even use a scope.

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Hi CDS, actually there was a link I believe that was on that site--because I stumbled across Carlos Hathcocks name and another Ami name. Carlos was famous as a sniper during the Vietnam War. Sadly--he passed away sometime ago.

Im sure your correct about Ami ww2 snipers though--I dont know any names of those "sniper aces."

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I have read the book on Carlos. I recommend it. I would guess that most of the german snipers kills were on the Eastern front. Am I correct? Does anyone know of any American officers killed by a sniper.

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That most German sniper kills were on the eastern front is probably correct. When writing officers, do you mean high ranking then? There are lots of stories of American experiences with German snipers on the internet.

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I've only ever heard of one U.S. sniper in WWII. Now this is really odd, but the one I've heard of was actually the actor, Lee Marvin. There is a book called, I think, "Stars in the Corps" that details the experiences of actors and such in the USMC. I remember it saying that Lee Marvin was a Marine sniper, and it showed a photo of him with a Japanese machine gun. Beyond that, though, I really haven't heard much.

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