Who Is This Person? The Hero Who Used a $20 Mail-Order Rifle to Kill 11 Japanese Snipers

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Who Is This Person? The Hero Who Used a $20 Mail-Order Rifle to Kill 11 Japanese Snipers

January 22, 1943. Lieutenant John George of the 132nd Infantry crouched among shattered rubble west of Point Cruz. In just seventy-two hours, Japanese snipers had taken the lives of fourteen Americans. George steadied his aim through a Lyman Alaskan scope fixed to his Winchester Model 70 — a civilian bolt-action hunting rifle he had purchased with two full years of National Guard savings.

To his battalion officers, it was nothing more than a toy.
Captain Morris had even ordered him to leave the “mail-order sweetheart” in his tent and carry a proper service weapon. Other platoon leaders mocked the idea that a sporting rifle could matter in real combat.

They couldn’t have been more mistaken.

What George uncovered that morning wasn’t about rate of fire or raw stopping power. It was about precision — a kind the Army’s emphasis on semi-automatic rifles simply couldn’t match. His Winchester cycled slower than the M1 Garand, but at three hundred yards it delivered a level of accuracy the standard issue rifle could not.

Over the next four days in the coconut groves near Point Cruz, George demonstrated a method of marksmanship that would completely reshape how commanders viewed individual shooting skill. His technique spread quietly across the Pacific, adopted soldier by soldier, long before any official training circular acknowledged it.

This unrecognized field innovation is believed to have saved as many as two thousand American lives, and the marksmanship principles George discovered still echo through modern U.S. military sniper doctrine today.

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