1. Mayjend killer John Sedgwick in the U.S. Civil War Bloodiest battle in the U.S. This turned out to bear a sniper world history, when a charismatic general from the North named John Sedgwick was killed by a hot tin attacked by Confederate troops from a great distance in time it is, about 1,000 yards (910 m) in a battle called the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, On May 9, 1864.
2.Simo Haya Perhaps this is the most famous sniper in the world because most hits record high kill, which kills about 542 Russian soldiers in the period of the Winter War (1939-1940). The nickname for the Simo Haya is "White Dead" because it always uses the Finnish army in white clothes as camouflage for field battles in snowy areas. What is truly extraordinary is Simo Haya bold action only using standard weapons without using a telescope, enough with the iron sight ato pisir regular iron! For Simo, the use of telescopes in the snowy area would prejudice because it will reflect light and hiding the sniper would easily known.
3.Lyudmila Pavlichenko If women's emancipation, the U.S. should have learned a lot from his eternal rival, Russia. When the U.S. women are still struggling in the kitchen stuff and the like, Russian women have a hero. Lyudmila Pavlichenko is one of the red army Russian woman who fought in World War II era. What makes him so remarkable is the ability to shoot very unusual, which in those days booked Lyudmila hit kill as many as 309 people, including 36 sniper Nazi Germany but unfortunately, he was hit by mortar attack and had to be withdrawn from the battlefield. After recovering Lyudmila was not deployed on the battlefield again, only used as a sniper instructor for the school, until the war ended. He was awarded the Gold Star medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union and her face made stampel stamps.
4.Vasily Zaytsev Vasily considered the most dangerous sniper kills not because of the number of hits to reach 149 kills and 400 who can not yet confirmed, but because the killer with a sniper duel top of Germany, namely Heinz Thorvald. Sniper duel between these often occur in Stalingrad, where the sniper is often must move from the rubble of the ruins of another and sometimes have to dig for an unknown enemy, who is known as the War of the Rats. And in the sniper duel is finally won by Vasily Zaytsev with sniper shots to the head Heinz Thorvald after successfully deceiving the German top sniper
5.Francis Pegahmagabow Pegahmagabow is one of the great sniper owned by Canada. In world war 1, Pegahmagabow of aboriginal descent was recorded hit kill as many as 378 kills and is regarded as one of the most dangerous sniper during World War 1.
6.Chuck Mawhinney In the Vietnam war, there are two names that are very famous American sniper, Carlos Hathcock and Chuck Mawhinney. Chuck's name may not be as famous as Carlos Hathcock is capable of killing a North Vietnamese general in its nest. But when viewed from the amount collected hit kill, Hathcock must take my hat off to Mawhinney to record 103 kills while Hathcock only recorded 93 kills. However, the Mawhinney did not want to expose it too much and prefers to live quietly and melupkan all the memories of Vietnam.
7.Adelbert F. Waldron III one of the most famous sniper in the U.S. before hathcock and Mawhinney, (grandfather teacher nih ....) with the kill record with 109. only by using the M21 rifle, he was able to create a record of remarkable, effective firing range M21 at that time only able to reach 800 meters, but with remarkable accuracy, he was able to shoot a distance of 950 meters Vietcong!, and he is also famous for its ability to shoot the object that can be said to be "difficult" for another sniper at that time. Adelbert died on 18 October 1995 in California at the age of 62 years.
8.Carlos Hathcock Greatness and natural talent was amazing. Usually when a sniper is always accompanied by one person who served as an assistant spotter and the measuring range for the sniper. But Hathcock able to work alone when given the task to kill a general of the North Vietnamese enemy alone in the nest! In addition, Hathcock pioneered the use of 0.5-inch caliber rifle as a sniper weapon remotely. Namely by modifying the .50-caliber M2 Browning Machine Gun as a sniper weapon by placing a telescope on it, and record-breaking shot and killed a Vietcong as far as 2500 yards ato approximately 2275 meters! From this came the idea to bear heavy guns (heavy sniper rifle) for a great distance or to shoot heavy objects such as combat vehicle (combat vehicles).
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