Red Army Sniper A Memoir on the Eastern Front in World War II
—— Red Army Sniper —— 26 Closer to us lay a plain dusted with snow without a single suitable feature to guide oneself by. Somewh ...
—— I Become a Sniper —— 27 ‘Ivan, take a look? I can see some Nazis to the right!’ I cried out joyfully, completely forgetting t ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 28 that visibility was completely lost. Even only some fifty metres away from us nothing could be seen. It ...
—— I Become a Sniper —— 29 of the bed, I began, by the light of an oil lamp, painstakingly to inscribe a letter on a piece of p ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 30 if needed, for the mortar bombers were liable at any moment to unleash defensive fire and cut us sniper ...
31 3. My First Partner I had further interactions with Ivan Dobrik subsequently. Until he was seriously wounded in the head in S ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 32 Although Ivan was sturdily built, had matured over the years over the years spent in Astrakhan, was bro ...
—— My First Partner —— 33 ‘No, people like this will not let the Nazis into their city. So we must hold fast too!’ thought Ivan ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 34 positions and at nightfall helped them to climb over the parapet. And, impressed by the courage of the ...
—— My First Partner —— 35 Ivan, perplexed. ‘What are we going to do? Maybe they’re not our women?’ There was no one for Ivan to ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 36 and bawling songs; their selfsatisfied mugs were visible through the telescopic sights of their rifles ...
37 4. Shoot the Firefighters! On the night of 3 December 1941, our 5th Company, which was standing by in reserve in the second l ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 38 own flares. Audibility was also good at night; it was only 60–80 metres to the German trenches. If, bef ...
—— Shoot the Firefighters! —— 39 it provided a superb view of the enemy defences. There was no particular need for camouflage; t ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 40 But ‘over there’ grenade explosions were resounding more and more frequently, and the chatter of machin ...
—— Shoot the Firefighters! —— 41 The minutes seemed like hours. At last I saw some human figures moving rapidly from shell hole ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 42 ‘Loktyev!’ Vladimirov stopped the scout bringing up the rear. ‘You stay with me! Tell the others to tak ...
—— Shoot the Firefighters! —— 43 reached the crest of the gully first kind of tripped, fell and rolled back down under the feet ...
—— Red Army Sniper —— 44 beams and huge clumps of earth went up in the air, all colliding with one another. All this fell around ...
45 5. Day-to-Day Life on the Front Line When subunits were replaced on the sector where we were located, one or two snipers who ...
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