Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

Matthaus Hetzenauer was conscripted into the German army at age 17 ... In the course of WWII, the Red Army implemented a sniper training program that involved over 400,000 participants.

Snipers in these battles fought ... as a protagonist in the Red Army's domestic propaganda, and the scourge of German soldiers all over the Eastern front. The Germans even went so far as to ...