Ranking is not made solely on the basis of the number of homicides caused, but also on the basis of their skills, as targets and the ability of the enemy line.
10. Thomas died in 1851 Plunkett-
He was an Irish soldier who served in the British Army. What makes it one of the biggest is that he shot the great French general, Auguste-Marie-François Colbert. He shot from a distance of 600 general meters with a weapon which had not at all the accuracy and sophistication of our weapons. He did the same thing with a Major who had gone to help his general. British soldiers of that time were trained to shoot the enemy from 50 meters distance, while Plunkett hit the target at a distance of 12 fold longer and it did twice, indicating that it was no coincidence.
9 Sergeant Grace
The date was May 9, 1864, when Sergeant Grace, a sniper confederation in America, made what is considered to be an unattainable target at the time. It was during the Battle of Spotsilvanisë when Grace took his rifle and had targeted British General John Sedgwick. The distance was 1 000 yard (914 meters), a distance very long time. During the clashes, the soldiers began to cover in order to be more secure. General had reacted blamed. "What? All this made for a single shot. All you do when they took all the front. They could not hit an elephant or from this distance, "he said. Few seconds later was hit below his left eye and fell down.
8
Charles 'Chuck' Mawhinney- Born in 1949
There are 103 murders his account confirmed. He joined the US Navy in 1967. He served in the Navy during the war in Vietnam and holds the record for a sniper killings Navy. He committed the murder 103 for just 16 months, while 216 other murders were listed as possible made by it, just because it was too risky at the time that the troops required documents. He has committed murder by distances of more than 1,000 meters making it the largest sniper Vietnam War.
7
Rob Furlong
Former member of the Canadian Forces holds the record for murder in greater length to carry the story of 2,430 meters. This length achieved in 2002 was achieved during his involvement in the operation Anakonda. He during operation without the 3 members of Al-Qaeda gunmen who were moving in the mountains. Took position and fired. In the first shot went knack. In the second shot the enemy in a backpack. He fired a third time, but the enemy realized that being fired. Every shooting was within three seconds, which gave enough time to hide enemy. But it succeeded on the third shot to hit the enemy in the chest.
6
Vasily Zaytsev
1915 - 1991
Zaytsev is probably the most famous sniper in history thanks to the movie "Enemy at the door". Yeleninskoye Zaystsev was born in Russia and grew up in the Ural Mountains. Before Stalingrad, he served as an officer in the Soviet Army. But after reaching the conflict in the city, he voluntarily joined the army in front. He served in the regiment of rifles 1047. Zaystsev was schooled as a sniper in Meriz factory. Cadets who were trained there is estimated to have killed over 3,000 enemy soldiers. Only Zaytsev was confirmed that killed 242 people between 1942 and January 1943 Teotrit, but the real number could go up to 500. There was no master sniper on the Nazis, despite the film says otherwise. The neat little was Erwin König. Zaytsev said in his memoirs that the duel took place over a three day period in the ruins of Stalingrad. The details of what happened are missing, but after three days he said he killed the Nazi sniper and took the trophy, called the Strand in the most important trophy after killing a sniper who regarded him with almost the same as yourself.
5
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
1916 -1974
In June 1941, when the Nazis are invadinin Soviet Union, Pavlichenko was 24 years old. It was among the volunteers joining the Red Army infantry, respectively division of 25th thanks. There she became a female snipers 2000 Soviet army. Two murders thanks to money became close Belyayenvka. While the first battle that took part was she in Odessa. It was in that city for two months and a half doing 187 murders. But after that period she was forced to shift in Sevastopol. There she reached the total number of homicides in 257. The total number of homicides confirmed it reached 309, 36 of which were killing enemy snipers.
4
Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow
1891 - 1952
The military medaled three times and seriously wounded twice, he was an expert marksman and scout, he killed 378 Germans and took captive over 300 others. Born in Canada, he was part of the division of this country in battle during the First World War. He was considered a hero, after the assassination of many enemies but gave a big contribution in line risking enemy fire to help his superiors and comrades.
3
Adelbert F. Waldron
1933 -1995
He holds the record of the largest number of confirmed as the sniper killings among Americans.
But it is not only the large number of murders that makes it one of the largest in history, but also his great accuracy. His Saktësionë shown in the book "snipers in Vietnam, which issued an insert:" Sailing boat on the Mekong River we be hit by a sniper Vjetkong. I do not see at all. But Sergeant Waldron took his sniper placed in position and shot-range enemy that was found on a tree 900 meters away from us ".
2
Carlos Norman Hathcock II
1942 -1999
Hathcock has a registry best sniper in the history of the US Navy. He won dozens Shooting Championships. But this is nothing compared to what he did in the Vietnam war by making 93 confirmed murders. This prompted the Vietnamese army to issue a reward of 30 million dollars for his life. What distinguishes this sniper had shot his famous. He opened fire at a great distance, while the bullet passed through an enemy sniper and shot him in the eye and killed. He performed a series of impossible missions, one of which includes day stay with sleepless nights in front of the enemy just to kill a general. After vru returned safe and sound to his base.
Simo Häyhä
1905 -2002
It was a Finnish soldier. It has the largest number of homicides confirmed as a sniper in any war, a total of 705. He was born in finlandezo-Russian border, starting military service in 1925. His duties as a sniper began in 1939-1940 during World War winter between Russia and Finland. At temperatures ranging up to -40 degrees Celsius, he for less than 100 days managed to kill at least 505 enemy soldiers (including 542 murders unconfirmed), but there are stories that say that this number had reached over 800. However, besides the sniper killings, he carried 200 gun murders confirmed that the number of murders lead confirmed in 705, while if including those of pakonfimuara the number is the one that was known by the nickname as "the Death White "goes to over 1000, all carried out in less than 100 days.
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