They Disbanded America's Snipers in 1919 — And Paid for It With Thousands of Lives
Автор: World War 2: The Real Story
Загружено: 2026-03-02
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In 1919, the United States Army made a decision that seemed perfectly logical. Snipers belonged to trench warfare. Trench warfare was over. So the schools were closed, the doctrine was shelved, and the knowledge walked out the door with the men who carried it.
Twenty-three years later, on Guadalcanal, American Marines were dying from invisible fire. Japanese snipers — trained for a decade specifically for jungle warfare — were killing officers, radio operators, and medics with precision the Americans had no answer for. Because the Army had no snipers. Not a single trained, organized, properly equipped sniper program anywhere in the entire United States military.
This is the story of the men who built one from scratch. Under fire. On the same island where their friends were dying.
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