Carlos Hathcock
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Carlos Norman Hathcock II (1942–99) var en amerikansk soldat i U.S. Marine Corps som gjorde tjeneste som skarpskytter under Vietnamkrigen. Han uskadeliggjorde 93 soldater fra Den nordvietnamesiske hær og Viet Cong, som kalte ham Lông Trắng («Den hvite fjær») fordi han bar en hvit fjær på sin patruljehatt.[1][2][3]
Han forlot militæret i 1975 med grad av gunnery sergeant.
Referanser
- ↑ Dockery 2007, s. 148 "Hathcock had taken to wearing a small white feather in his boonie hat. It was just stuck in the brim ...the Viet Cong came to know the sniper as Long Tr'ang, 'the White Feather'."
- ↑ Dougherty, Martin J. (2012). Sniper: SAS and Elite Forces Guide: Sniping skills from the world's elite forces. Amber Books Ltd. s. 40. ISBN 978-1-909160-38-5. «Carlos Hathcock (1942–99) Nicknamed the 'White Feather' for the feather he wore in his hatband, Carlos Hathcock is perhaps the most influential sniper of all time.»
- ↑ Cawthorne, Nigel (desember 2011). «The White Feather». Confirmed Kill: Heroic Sniper Stories from the Jungles of Vietnam to the Mountains of Afghanistan. Ulysses Press. s. 19. ISBN 978-1-61243-023-2. «The Vietcong and the soldiers of the NVA called him Long Tr'ang—the "White Feather"—for the plume he stuck in his hat band.»
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