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Kurt Knispel
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[quote]With 168 (all confirmed, possibly as high as 195) kills, Knispel was by far the most successful tanker of the Second World War and is even credited with knocking out a T-34 at 3,000 m. He fought in virtually every type of German tank as loader, gunner and commander. He was awarded the Iron Cross, First Class, after destroying his fiftieth enemy tank and the Tank Assault Badge in Gold after more than 100 tank battles. When Knispel had destroyed 126 enemy tanks (with another 20 unconfirmed kills), he was awarded the German Cross in Gold. He became the only non-commissioned officer of the German tank arm to be named in a Wehrmacht communique. As commander of a Tiger I and then a King Tiger, Knispel destroyed another 42 enemy tanks. Though he was recommended for it four times, Knispel never received the coveted Knight's Cross, a standard feature of most other World War II German tank aces.
Unlike other commanders, Knispel was not consumed by the pursuit of decorations and did not suffer from a "sore throat", Heer slang for those who lusted after the Knight's Cross. When there were conflicting claims for a destroyed enemy tank, Knispel always stepped back, always willing to credit success to someone else.[/quote]
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Dude deserved the Knights Cross with oak leaves and diamonds.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;20974207]For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty at Saipan, Mariana Islands, 19 June to 7 July 1944. When his entire company was held up by fire from automatic weapons and small-arms fire from strongly fortified enemy positions that commanded the view of the company, Sgt. (then Pvt.) Baker voluntarily took a bazooka and dashed alone to within 100 yards of the enemy. Through heavy rifle and machinegun fire that was directed at him by the enemy, he knocked out the strong point, enabling his company to assault the ridge. Some days later while his company advanced across the open field flanked with obstructions and places of concealment for the enemy, Sgt. Baker again voluntarily took up a position in the rear to protect the company against surprise attack and came upon 2 heavily fortified enemy pockets manned by 2 officers and 10 enlisted men which had been bypassed. Without regard for such superior numbers, he unhesitatingly attacked and killed all of them. Five hundred yards farther, he discovered 6 men of the enemy who had concealed themselves behind our lines and destroyed all of them. On 7 July 1944, the perimeter of which Sgt. Baker was a part was attacked from 3 sides by from 3,000 to 5,000 Japanese. During the early stages of this attack, Sgt. Baker was seriously wounded but he insisted on remaining in the line and fired at the enemy at ranges sometimes as close as 5 yards until his ammunition ran out. Without ammunition and with his own weapon battered to uselessness from hand-to-hand combat, he was carried about 50 yards to the rear by a comrade, who was then himself wounded. At this point Sgt. Baker refused to be moved any farther stating that he preferred to be left to die rather than risk the lives of any more of his friends. A short time later, at his request, he was placed in a sitting position against a small tree. Another comrade, withdrawing, offered assistance. Sgt. Baker refused, insisting that he be left alone and be given a soldier's pistol with its remaining 8 rounds of ammunition. When last seen alive, Sgt. Baker was propped against a tree, pistol in hand, calmly facing the foe. Later Sgt. Baker's body was found in the same position, gun empty, with 8 Japanese lying dead before him. His deeds were in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/7/920237_62001_front.jpg[/IMG]
The Main Character in that is Matt Baker, the stories are nearly the same, so...?
Except the theatres are different and Baker didn't die at the end of that game.
Carlos Hathcock
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[quote]Before deploying to Vietnam, Hathcock had won many shooting championships.[5] In 1966 Hathcock started his deployment in Vietnam as an MP and later became a sniper after Captain Edward J. Land Jr. pushed the Marines into raising snipers in every platoon. Land later recruited Marines who had set their own records in sharpshooting; he quickly found Hathcock, who had won the Wimbledon Cup, the most prestigious prize for long-range shooting, at Camp Perry in 1965.[5]
During the Vietnam War Hathcock had 93 confirmed kills of North Vietnamese Army and Viet-Cong personnel.[5][6] (During the Vietnam War, kills had to be confirmed by an acting third party; snipers often did not have an acting third party present, making confirmation difficult.) He is ranked fourth, behind U.S. Marine Corps snipers Eric R. England and Chuck Mawhinney and United States Army sniper Adelbert Waldron, on the list of most confirmed kills for an American sniper.
The North Vietnamese Army even put a bounty of $30,000 on his life for killing so many of their men. Rewards put on U.S. snipers by the N.V.A. typically amounted to only $8.[5][7] The Viet Cong and N.V.A. called Hathcock Lông Trắng, translated as "White Feather," because of the white feather he kept in a band on his bush hat.[8] After a platoon of trained Vietnamese snipers were sent to hunt down "White Feather," many Marines in the same area donned white feathers to deceive the enemy. These Marines were aware of the impact Hathcock's death would have and took it upon themselves to make themselves targets in order to preserve the life of the true "White Feather".[9]
One of Hathcock's most famous accomplishments was shooting an enemy sniper through his scope, hitting him in the eye and killing him.[2] Hathcock and John Roland Burke, his spotter, were stalking the enemy sniper in the jungle near Hill 55, the firebase Hathcock was operating from. The sniper had already killed several Marines and was believed to have been sent specifically to kill Hathcock.[9] When Hathcock saw a flash of light (light reflecting off the enemy sniper's scope) in the bushes,[2] he fired at it, shooting through the scope and killing the sniper.[5] Surveying the situation, Hathcock concluded that the only feasible way he could have put the bullet straight down the enemy's scope and through his eye would have been if both snipers were zeroing in on each other at the same time and Hathcock fired first, which gave him only a few seconds to act.[9] Given the flight time of rounds at long ranges, both snipers could easily have killed one another.[8] The enemy rifle was recovered and the incident is documented by a photograph.
Hathcock only once removed the white feather from his bush hat while deployed in Vietnam.[10] During a volunteer mission days before the end of his first deployment, he crawled over 1,500 yards of field to shoot an NVA commanding general.[8][10][11] He wasn't informed of the details of the mission until he accepted it.[12] This effort took four days and three nights, without sleep, of constant inch-by-inch crawling.[8][10][11] In Hathcock's words, almost stepped on him as he lay camouflaged with grass and vegetation in a meadow shortly after sunset.[2] At one point he was nearly bitten by a bamboo viper but had the presence of mind to avoid moving and giving up his position.[11] As the general exited his vehicle Carlos fired a single shot that struck the general in the chest, killing him.[8][10][11] He had to crawl back instead of run when soldiers started searching.[8][10][11]
After the arduous mission of killing the general, Hathcock returned to the United States in 1967.[8][10][11][12] However, he missed the Marine Corps and returned to Vietnam in 1969, where he took command of a platoon of snipers.[9]
Hathcock generally used the standard sniper rifle: the Winchester Model 70 .30-06 caliber rifle with the standard Unertl scope. On some occasions, however, he used a different weapon: the .50-caliber M2 Browning Machine Gun, on which he mounted the Unertl scope, using a bracket of his own design.[8] This weapon was accurate to 2500 yards when fired one round at a time. At one point, he took careful aim at a courier carrying a load of assault rifles and ammunition on a bicycle. He had second thoughts when he saw a 12-year-old boy in his sights, but after considering the intended use of those weapons, he decided to disable the bicycle, hitting the bike frame. The boy tumbled over the handlebars, grabbed a gun, and immediately began firing back, so Hathcock returned fire, killing him.[8]
Hathcock's career as a sniper came to a sudden end outside Khe Sanh in 1969, when an amphibious amtrack he was riding on struck an anti-tank mine.[5] Hathcock pulled seven Marines off the flame-engulfed vehicle before jumping to safety. He was told he would be recommended for the Silver Star, but he stated that he had only done what anyone there would had done if they were awake, so he rejected any commendation for his bravery. Nearly 30 years later, he was awarded the Silver Star, the third most prestigious award in U.S. military.[/quote]
There used to be a kid on the 386th vent that sounded like rambo.
Major Mike Hoare
In 1978, Seychelles exiles in South Africa, acting in behalf of ex-president James Mancham, discussed with South African Government officials launching a coup d'état against the new president France-Albert René. The military option had been decided in Washington, D.C., after concerns for United States access to its new military base in Diego Garcia island, and the determination that René was not corruptible in favour of the Americans.
Associates of Mancham contacted Hoare, then in South Africa as a civilian resident, to fight alongside fifty-three other mercenary soldiers, including South African special forces (Recces), former Rhodesian soldiers, and ex-Congo mercenaries.
Hoare got together a group of white, middle class mercenaries, and dubbed the "Ye Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers" (AOFB) after a posh English social club of the 1930s. In order for the plan to work, he disguised the mercenaries as a rugby club, and hid AK-47s in the bottom of his luggage, as he explained in his book The Seychelles Affair:
"We were a Johannesburg beer-drinking club. We met formally once a week in our favourite pub in Braamfontein. We played Rugby. Once a year we organised a holiday for our members. We obtained special charter rates. Last year we went to Mauritius. In the best traditions of the original AOFB we collected toys for underprivileged kids and distributed them to orphanages... I made sure the toys were as bulky as possible and weighed little. Rugger footballs were ideal. These were packed in the special baggage above the false bottom to compensate for the weight of the weapon."
The fighting started prematurely when the second to last passenger filing through customs was found to be carrying undeclared goods. One of Hoare's men was last in line, behind this civilian, and the customs officer insisted on searching his bag as well. The rifles were well-concealed in the false-bottomed kitbags but for some reason the rifle was found and the customs man, running from the scene, sounded the alarm. One of Hoare's men pulled his own, disassembled AK-47 from the concealed compartment in the luggage, assembled it, loaded it and shot the escaping customs man before he could reach the other side of the building. The plan for the coup proceeded despite this set-back with one team of Hoare's men attempting to capture a barracks. Fighting ensued at the airport and in the middle of this, an Air India jet (Air India Boeing aircraft Flight 224), landed at the airport, damaging a flap on one of the trucks strewn on the runway. Hoare managed to negotiate a ceasefire before the aircraft and passengers were caught in the crossfire. After several hours, the mercenaries found themselves in an unfavorable position and some wanted to depart on the aircraft, which needed fuel. Hoare conceded and the captain of the aircraft allowed them on board after Hoare had found fuel for the aircraft. On board, Hoare asked the captain why he had landed when he had been informed of the fighting taking place and he responded that once the aircraft had started to descend, he did not have enough fuel to climb the aircraft back to cruising altitude and still make his destination.
Hoare's men still had their weapons and Hoare asked the captain if he would allow the door to be opened so they could ditch the weapons over the sea before they returned to South Africa, but the captain laughed at Hoare's out-of-date knowledge on how pressurized aircraft functioned and told him it would not be possible.
Four of the mercenary soldiers who were left behind were convicted of treason in the Seychelles;
In January 1982 an International Commission, appointed by the United Nations Security Council in Resolution 496, inquired into the attempted coup d'état. The UN report concluded that South African defence agencies were involved, including supplying weapons and ammunition.
Being associated with the South African security services, the hijackers were initially charged with kidnapping, which carries no minimum sentence, but this was upgraded to hijacking after international pressure.
One of the soldiers, an American veteran of the U.S. – Vietnam War, was found not guilty of hijacking, for being seriously wounded in the firefight, and had been loaded aboard while sedated. Many of the other mercenaries were quietly released after three months in their own prison wing.
While still in prison, Colonel Hoare began signing up 'Honorary Members' in 'The Wild Geese'. As the process required some information on former military service and military specialties, many reports called this a recruitment drive. Many thousands of active and former military personnel applied with Colonel Hoare, thus quite a database of potential mercenaries (contract employees) was developed, but none were ever called to serve with Colonel Hoare.
Hoare was a chartered accountant and member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales. Previously the Institute had said it could not expel him despite protests from members as he had committed no offence and studiously paid his membership dues. His imprisonment allowed the ICAEW to expel him from membership.
I don't know if it has been posted before, but this guy got a spacecraft's name dedicated to him in Starship Troopers:
[QUOTE=Starship Troopers, By Robert A. Heinlein
[B]HISTORICAL NOTE[/B]
YOUNG, RODGER W., Private, 148th Infantry, 37th Infantry Division (the Ohio Buckeyes); born Tiffin, Ohio, 28 April 1918; died 31 July 1943, on the island New Georgia, Solomons, South Pacific, while single-handedly attacking and destroying an enemy machine-gun pillbox. His platoon had been pinned down by intense fire from this pillbox; Private Young was wounded in the first burst. He crawled toward the pillbox, was wounded a second time but continued to advance, firing his rifle as he did so. He closed on the pillbox, attacked and destroyed it with hand grenades, but in so doing he was wounded a third time and killed.
His bold and gallant action in the face of overwhelming odds enabled his teammates to escape without loss; he was awarded posthumously the Medal of Honor.
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Leo Major, The most badass Canadian to walk this earth.
[quote]Battle of the Scheldt
Leo single-handedly captured 93 German soldiers during The Battle of the Scheldt in southern Holland. During a Reconnaissance, whilst alone, he spotted two German soldiers walking along a dike. It was raining and it was cold. Leo said to himself "I am frozen and wet because of you so you will pay." So he captured the first one and used him as bait to capture the second one. The second one tried to use his gun but seconds later he was dead. Leo captured their commanding officer and forced him to surrender. The German garrison surrendered themselves (after three more were shot dead by Leo). In a nearby village, SS troops who witnessed German soldiers being escorted by a Canadian soldier shot at their own soldiers, injuring a few and killing seven. Leo disregarded the enemy fire and kept escorting his prisoners to the Canadian front line. A Canadian tank passing by was ordered by Leo to fire at the SS troops.
Leo marched back to camp with nearly a hundred prisoners. For this event he was chosen to receive a DCM. He declined the invitation to be decorated however, because according to him General Montgomery (who was giving the award) was "incompetent" and in no position to be giving out medals.[/quote]
[quote]n February 1945, Leo was helping the padre load the corpses from a destroyed Tiger Tank into a Bren Carrier. After they finished loading the bodies, the padre and the driver seated themselves in the front whilst Leo jumped on the back of the vehicle.
The carrier took off, but didn't go very far as it had struck a tank mine. Leo remembered a loud blast followed by his body being thrown into the air and smashing down hard as he landed on his back.
He lost consciousness and awoke after two concerned Medical officers asked him "Are you OK?" He simply replied "Is the padre all right?" They didn't answer, but loaded him on a stretcher and onto a truck for a very bumpy ride to a field hospital 30 miles away, stopping every 15 minutes to inject morphine to remove the pain from his back.
The Doctor was not encouraging as they told him that his back was broken in three places, with four broken ribs and both ankles broken.
Again they told Leo that the war was over for him. They didn't know Leo because he let them take care of him for a week while he contrived a way to escape from the hospital.
A week went by and Leo had the opportunity to flee. He managed to get a ride from a passing jeep that drove him to Nijmegen, where he had previously met a family there.
His stay with the family was close to a month. Leo went back to his unit in March 1945. In the beginning of April, the Régiment de la Chaudière were approaching the city of Zwolle , which presented strong German resistance.
The Commanding Officer asked for two volunteers to recon the German force before the artillery began firing at the city. Léo and his good friend, Willie Arseneault, stepped forward to accept the task. They knew that there was big risk during this mission, but accepted it none-the-less. Leo and Willie, not wanting this beautiful city destroyed, decided to try to capture the city of Zwolle alone, though they were only supposed to recon the German numbers, and attempt contact with the Dutch Resistance.
Around midnight Willie was killed by German fire; he made just enough noise to make the Germans open fire, giving away their position. Enraged, Leo killed two of the Germans, but the rest of the group fled in a vehicle.
He decided, more than ever, to continue his mission alone, and to avenge his fallen comrade. He entered Zwolle near Sassenport and came upon a staff car. Leaping out of the shadows, he captured the German driver, and led him to a bar where an officer was taking a drink. Inside he found that they could both speak French (the officer was from Alsace), and Leo told him that at 6 am the Canadian Artillery will begin firing at the city causing many casualties among the German troops and especially among the civilian. I do not want that to happen to this beautiful city so the Germans have to pack their things and leave – he even gave the German his gun back.
He then proceeded to run throughout the city firing his machine gun, attacking and capturing German troops (about 10 times during the night he captured groups of 8 to 10 German soldiers, escorted them out of the city and giving them to the French-Canadian troops that were waiting in Zwolle vicinity. After giving his prisoners he returned to Zwolle to continue his mission) throwing grenades and making so much noise that he fooled the Germans into thinking that the Canadian army really had surrounded them and was entering the city. Four times during the night he had to force his way into several houses to get some rest. That night he located the Gestapo HQ. He set the building on fire. Later stumbling upon the SS HQ, he got into a quick but deadly fight with eight ranking Nazi officers – four were killed, and the other half fled. He noticed that two of the SS he just killed were disguised as resistance members. The Zwolle resistance had been (or were going to be) infiltrated by the Nazis. By then, at 4:30 a.m. an exhausted Leo found out that the Germans had retreated.
Zwolle had been liberated, and the Resistance contacted. Walking in the street he met four members of Dutch Resistance. He asked them if they speak French or English. None spoke those languages but they brought him a woman that was an English teacher in Zwolle. Léo told the woman to inform the Resistance people that Zwolle was now free of Germans. The Resistance people took off in a hurry to tell the good news to whoever was awake at this hour. By the early morning hours, Léo’s task inside the city of Zwolle was almost completed; he now knew that the Germans had fled to the west of the River IJssel and perhaps more importantly, that the planned shelling of the city should be called off and that his Régiment de la Chaudière could enter the city unopposed that very morning.
Leo then set about collecting his dead friend, Willie, and took him back to the Van Gerner farm until regimental reinforcements could carry him away. He was back at camp by 9 am. For his actions, Leo received the Distinguished Conduct Medal.[/quote]
Also, Voytek the Soldier Bear and Viking at Stanford Bridge.
If i can post pictures, I'll show you the best sniper that ever lived.
YAY!! Killing people is so much fun!
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[B]Medal of Honor winner Corporal Tony Stein.[/B]
[I]"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving with Company A, First Battalion, Twenty-Eighth Marines, Fifth Marine Division, in action against enemy Japanese forces on Iwo Jima, in the Volcano Island, February 19, 1945. The first man of his unit to be on station after hitting the beach in the initial assault, Corporal Stein, armed with a personally improvised aircraft-type weapon, provided rapid covering fire as the remainder of his platoon attempted to move into position and, when his comrades were stalled by a concentrated machine-gun and mortar barrage, gallantly stood upright and exposed himself to the enemy's view, thereby drawing the hostile fire to his own person and enabling him to observe the location of the furiously blazing hostile guns. Determined to neutralize the strategically placed weapons, he boldly charged the enemy pillboxes one by one and succeeded in killing twenty of the enemy during the furious single-handed assault. Cool and courageous under the merciless hail of exploding shells and bullets which fell on all sides, he continued to deliver the fire of his skillfully improvised weapon at a tremendous rate of speed which rapidly exhausted his ammunition. Undaunted, he removed his helmet and shoes to expedite his movements and ran back to the beach for additional ammunition, making a total of eight trips under intense fire and carrying or assisting a wounded man back each time. Despite the unrelenting savagery and confusion of battle, he rendered prompt assistance to his platoon whenever the unit was in position, directing the fire of a half-track against a stubborn pillbox until he had effected the ultimate destruction of the Japanese fortification. Later in the day, although his weapon was twice shot from his hands, he personally covered the withdrawal of his platoon to the company position. Stouthearted and indomitable, Corporal Stein, by his aggressive initiative, sound judgment and unwavering devotion to duty in the face of terrific odds, contributed materially to the fulfillment of his mission, and his outstanding valor throughout the bitter hours of conflict sustained and enhanced the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."[/I]
The improvised weapon mentioned was an M1919 'Stinger', an Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun with the stock of an M1 Garand, the sites from an M1918 BAR, and an improvised trigger. It was capable of firing about 1,200 rounds per minute, or 20 rounds a second.
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that looks really stupid
[QUOTE=Killerjc;20988349]that looks really stupid[/QUOTE]
It's a fucking gun movable gun that shoots down aircraft. Who cares if it looks stupid?
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[B]Trooper Mark Donaldson[/B]
[QUOTE]The actions for which Donaldson's VC were awarded took place on 2 September 2008. Patrolling with Afghan and US forces, they were ambushed by a well-prepared and larger Taliban force. The ambush began with sustained machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire, causing several casualties. Donaldson deliberately exposed himself to fire from the Taliban fighters in order to draw their attention away from the casualties, allowing them to be moved to cover. When the patrol attempted to withdraw, the number of casualties was such that the unwounded personnel (including Donaldson) had to make their way on foot, beside their vehicles, as the casualties filled the vehicles. As they set off, it was realised that an Afghan interpreter attached to the patrol was wounded, and had not been loaded into the vehicles. Donaldson immediately crossed the 80 metres or so of open ground between the convoy and the interpreter, under heavy fire, and then carried him back to the vehicles where Donaldson administered first aid. The patrol eventually broke free of the ambush after two hours.
When asked about the incident, Donaldson commented: "I'm a soldier, I'm trained to fight ... it's instinct and it's natural. I just saw him there, I went over and got him, that was it."[4] The events were first reported by the Australian press on 12 December 2008 following a briefing by Major General Tim McOwan on 11 December. At this stage Donaldson was identified only as "Trooper F".Donaldson then became the first recipient of the Victoria Cross for Australia on 16 January 2009; with no previous announcement, he was presented with the medal by the Governor-General at a ceremony in Government House, Canberra.[/QUOTE]
can't believe no one mentioned it.
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[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;20983818]This is Plagiarized from Cracked.com
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And I just went looking through my bookmarks for that exact link.
King Agis III is still my favorite from the list. [sp]Fucking hamstringing people on his knees[/sp]
And Luke Frank as a close second.
Read this article - some of them are extremely badass
[URL]http://www.cracked.com/article_18429_6-soldiers-who-survived-shit-that-would-kill-terminator.html[/URL]
Some of these have been probably mentioned - but they're written well.
[URL]http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_5-real-life-soldiers-who-make-rambo-look-like-pussy.html[/URL]
[QUOTE=The Ripper;20974322]The site of Severloh’s last active mission was a simple foxhole in the section of Omaha Beach known to the Americans as “Easy Red”, close to the present site of the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial near Colleville-sur-Mer. Severloh’s superiors had ordered him to use all means to drive back the landing American soldiers. His foxhole was part of a medium-sized emplacement known as “Widerstandsnest 62” (English: resistance nest 62). In the absence of a well-developed defensive line, such “resistance nests” had been established along the Atlantic coast and allocated numbers for identification. There were radio and telephone connections between the various emplacements, and many were also within eyesight of one another. The soldiers manning the emplacements in a firing line could therefore coordinate with one another.
Severloh was assigned to a Lieutenant Frerking. While Frerking coordinated the artillery fire of his battery from a bunker, the young Severloh manned an MG42. He fired on the waves of approaching American GIs with the machine gun and two Karabiner 98k rifles, while comrades kept up a continuous flow of ammunition to him. By 3 p.m., Severloh had fired approximately 12,000 rounds with the machine gun and 400 rounds with the two rifles. Some have asserted that this resulted in an estimated 2000-2500 American deaths and injuries, however this is likely a gross overestimation, since total American casualties on Omaha Beach were approximately 3000. GIs finally found a thinly manned gap between resistance nests 62 and 64 (directly below the site of the U.S. War Cemetery) and were thus able to attack Widerstandsnest 62 from behind and take it out (resistance nest 63 was a command centre in Colleville and not an emplacement)
The American GIs had bad tactical positions from the outset during the storming of the beach. Between the edge of the water and the dunes, there was a very wide, treacherous strip of sand to cross, which was completely flat and without cover. The advance bombing of the German defensive positions had not produced concrete results. Severloh’s lines of fire almost entirely covered the sections of beach known as Easy Red and Fox Green. Furthermore, the Americans took several hours to pinpoint Severloh’s position. Only when the shortage of standard combat ammunition led him to the use of tracer ammunition were U.S. war ships able to locate his foxhole and attack it with heavy artillery.
Moreover, Heinrich Severloh with his MG42 was forced back into his bunker at least twice as the result of precise grenade attacks and yet he returned to the position he had been ordered to hold each time and continued to fire. This was out of obedience rather than zeal.
The bunker is only a couple of square metres in size. It had been built as an observation post for an artillery spotter (on 6 June 1944, this was Lieutenant Frerking). Some sources therefore claim that Severloh only stood in a foxhole beside it.
It is also notable that Severloh continued to fire using a rifle while he had to wait for both barrels of his MG42 to cool off (he only had access to one replacement barrel). Even with this slow weapon (slow to load in comparison to semi-automatic weapons), he was able to fire the rifle more than 400 times before it failed. According to Severloh, even “kicking the loading lever” didn’t help any more, as the weapon had been warped by heat.[/QUOTE]
[I]One of the few survivors of Severloh’s MG salvos was the 19-year-old GI David Silva, who was, however, gravely wounded. In the 1960s, Severloh found David Silva’s name in a book about the invasion. Wishing to find this man that he had once shot at, Severloh wrote him a letter. Several months later, Severloh discovered that Silva was once more active in the U.S. Army as a military chaplain and was stationed in Karlsruhe, Germany It was there that they met for the second time. Severloh asked him how he had come to be a chaplain. Silva's answer was: “In the moment when I had to get out of that landing boat and run up into the fire of your machine gun, I cried out to God to help me to get out of this hell alive. I pledged to become a chaplain and as such to help other soldiers.” After living through the war, he was ordained a priest. The erstwhile enemies became good friends and at the 2005 reunion of Allied Forces in Normandy, Severloh and Silva met once more. According to eyewitnesses, the two seemed to be “the best of friends”. Between the time they first met after the war, until Severloh's death, the two wrote to each other often. Silva is now living in Cleveland, Ohio as a priest and has visited Severloh's gravesite more than once.[/I]
Sims have bloopers. So do we. Has anything happened in your life that you just find funny and ridiculous? for example, Me the other day: I got myself some soda and Im trying to put the cap back on the bottle, when few second later I realize Im trying to screw it on the glass O_O
Also I couldnt find my hair brush which was in front of me on the computer desk all along.
What about you?
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[QUOTE=Aman V;20974455]Mother fuckin Rudel. Probably one of the best pilots in human history.
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel[/URL]
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"[B]Achievements[/B]
According to official Luftwaffe figures, Rudel flew some 2,530 combat missions (a world record), during which he destroyed almost 2,000 ground targets (among them 519 tanks, 70 assault craft/landing boats, 150 self-propelled guns, 4 armored trains, and 800 other vehicles) as well as 9 planes (2 Il-2's and 7 fighters). He also responsible for the sinking of the Soviet battleship Marat, two cruisers and a destroyer. He was never shot down by another pilot, only by anti-aircraft artillery. He was shot down or forced to land 32 times, several times behind enemy lines.
On one occasion, after trying a landing to rescue two downed novice Stuka crewmen and then not being able to take off again due to the muddy conditions, he and his three companions, while being chased for 6 km by Soviet soldiers, made their way down a steep cliff by sliding down trees, then swam 600 meters across the icy Dniester river, during which his rear gunner, Knight's cross holder Henschel, succumbed to the cold water and drowned. Several miles further towards the German lines the three survivors were then captured by Soviets, but the irrepressible Rudel again made a run for it, and despite being barefoot and in soaking clothes, getting shot in his shoulder, and then being hunted down by dog packs and several hundred pursuers, jogged his way back to his own side over semi-frozen earth during the following days. He became infamous among the Soviet Red Falcon pilots who could often be heard receiving orders to "get that Nazi swine in the Stuka with the two bars who keeps shooting up our tanks", the bars being a reference to the two Bordkanone on the Ju87G. Eventually a 100,000 ruble bounty was placed on his head by Stalin himself.
In total he was wounded five times and rescued six stranded aircrew from enemy territory, although the two mentioned above were recaptured. The vast majority of his missions were spent piloting the various models of the Junkers Ju 87, though by the end of the war he often flew the ground-attack variant of the Fw 190.
He went on to become the most decorated serviceman of all the fighting arms of the German armed forces (the only person to become more highly decorated was Hermann Göring who was awarded the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross), earning by early 1945 the Wound Badge in Gold, the German Cross in Gold, the Pilots and Observer's Badge with Diamonds, the Front Flying Clasp of the Luftwaffe with 2,000 sorties in Diamonds, and the only holder of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds (the highest-scoring ace of World War II, Erich Hartmann, also held the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords, and Diamonds — but his Oak Leaves were not gold). He was also promoted to Oberst at this time. He was the only foreigner to be honored with Hungary's highest decoration, the Golden Medal for Bravery"[/QUOTE]
2,530 combat missions / destroyed almost 2,000 => shitty ratio if you ask me. Not even a vehicule destroyed per mission.
Try to survive 2,530 missions and then come back.
[QUOTE=Ickylevel;20991264]2,530 combat missions / destroyed almost 2,000 => shitty ratio if you ask me. Not even a vehicule destroyed per mission.[/QUOTE]
Because combat missions are like video games where you destroy legions of vehicles.
[QUOTE=Ickylevel;20991264]2,530 combat missions / destroyed almost 2,000 => shitty ratio if you ask me. Not even a vehicule destroyed per mission.[/QUOTE]
because you can destroy legions of tanks with only 1 or 3 bombs.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Churchill[/url]
Motherfucker landed on D-Day with a sword and bow & arrows
Basically all Victoria's cross/Medal of Honor winners are rambo's.
By the way, are there generals that actually charged to the frontlines?
Also, awesome bagpiper.
James Cleland Richardson
[quote]During the Battle of the Ancre Heights on 8 October 1916 at Regina Trench, Somme, France, the company was held up by very strong wire and came under intense fire. Piper Richardson, who had obtained permission to play the company 'over the top' strode up and down outside the wire playing his pipes, which so inspired the company that the wire was rushed and the position captured. Later the piper was detailed to take back a wounded comrade and some prisoners, but after proceeding some distance he insisted on turning back to recover his pipes which he had left behind. He was never seen again.[/quote]
[QUOTE=BlazeFresh;20974279]so much agree right here[/QUOTE]
same here
[QUOTE=Jiro-uk-;20974316]Damn that first guys story is like something out of an action film.[/QUOTE]
I wish i was him.
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