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Mawhinney poses in 2013 with a replica of the M40 sniper rifle he used during the Vietnam War. Charles Benjamin Mawhinney (February 23, 1949 – February 12, 2024) was a United States Marine who holds the Corps' record for the most confirmed sniper kills, having recorded 103 confirmed kills and 216 probable kills in 16 months during the Vietnam ...
American. Bob Lee "the Nailer" Swagger is a fictional character created by Stephen Hunter. He is the protagonist of a series of 12 novels (as of 2022) that relate his life during and after the Vietnam War, starting with Point of Impact (1993) up to the most recent Targeted (2022). Swagger is the protagonist of the 2007 film and the 2016 TV ...
Date apprehended. November 27, 1992. Thomas Lee Dillon (July 9, 1950 [1] [2] – October 21, 2011) was an American serial killer who shot and killed at least five men in southeastern Ohio, beginning April 1, 1989 and continuing until April 1992. [3] [4] He was nicknamed "Killer" for boasting about shooting hundreds of animals.
Christopher Scott Kyle was born on April 8, 1974, in Odessa, Texas, the eldest of two boys born to Deborah Lynn ( née Mercer) and Wayne Kenneth Kyle, a Sunday school teacher and deacon. [3] [10] His father bought Kyle his first rifle at the age of eight, a bolt-action .30-06 Springfield rifle, and later a shotgun, with which they hunted deer ...
History. Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock in 1996. The science of long-range sniping came to fruition in the Vietnam War. US Marine Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock held the record from 1967 to 2002 at 2,286 m (2,500 yd). [12] He recorded 93 official kills. [citation needed]
I, Sniper is a novel by Stephen Hunter, published by Simon & Schuster in 2009. It is Hunter's sixth novel whose hero is Bob Lee Swagger, a U. S. Marine Corps sniper who first appears in Point of Impact [1] which is partially set in the Vietnam War. It is tenth in order of publication and sixth in the chronology of the character.
Juba (sniper) Juba [1] ( Arabic: جوبا ), sometimes spelled Joba, is the pseudonym of an anonymous sniper with the Sunni insurgent group Islamic Army in Iraq involved in the Iraqi insurgency, featured in several videos released between 2005 and 2007. Juba became famous after videos showing footage of his shootings appeared online.
Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946, Kansas City, Missouri) is an American novelist, essayist, and film critic. Life and career [ edit ] Hunter was born in Kansas City, Missouri , and grew up in Evanston, Illinois .