How a U.S. Sniper's 'Stick Trick' Found German AA Gun at 1,600 Meters and Saved 150 Americans

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At 0740 hours on the morning of December 29th, 1944, Staff Sergeant Daryl Powers stood in a frozen foxhole above the Belgian village of Foy, staring at a treeine 1,600 m away through the iron sights of an M1 Garand rifle that had no scope, no magnification, no optical advantage over the naked eye. He turned to First Sergeant Carwood Lipton and said... Read More