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gordong Marine scout sniper book "40... 07-06-2022, 09:19 PM
champ0608 Gregg I pre-ordered my copy... 07-07-2022, 12:56 AM
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    Gregg I pre-ordered my copy when it came out and read it in a day. It's a good book, well worth owning, but focuses very little on any actual "sniping." It won't scratch that itch, but it will introduce you to a lot of characters from one of the very few organized USMC scout sniper platoons of WWII, and for that reason I found the book invaluable.

    It's not a glamorous story. Many of these men meet particularly violent deaths, and the survivors all relate stories of dealing with decades of haunting PTSD. It's an important reminder to those of us who obsess over the minutia and details of these rifles, that real boys carried them in war, and many of them didn't come home.

    I'm sure you've seen this picture from Peter Senich's book. They're both main characters in this book, and I found it refreshing to finally put a name to these two guys (Cpl Don Evans and Sgt Bill Knuppel.) I can't think of a more iconic WWII USMC photo, and they're both heavily featured in this book.



    And I think one of those is my rifle

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