Sniper on the Eastern Front Wacker Albrecht
Sniper on the Eastern Front Wacker Albrecht Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of…
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Sniper on the Eastern Front Wacker Albrecht
Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honored with the award of the Knight's Cross.An Austrian conscript, after qualifying as a machine gunner he was drafted to the southern sector of the Russian Front in July 1942. There was no place for chivalry on the Russian Front. Wounded at Voroshilovsk, he experimented with a Russian sniper-rifle while convalescing and so impressed his superiors with his proficiency that he was returned to the front on his regiment's only sniper specialist.In this sometimes harrowing memoir, Allerberger provides an excellent introduction to the commitment in field craft, discipline and routine required of the sniper, a man apart.
Russian snipers had used the illegal explosive bullet since Away from the film cameras, no prisoner survived long after surrendering.
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