The One-Round War: USMC Scout-Snipers in Vietnam - Paladin Press

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THE ONE-ROUND WARThird Marines snipers, CampCarroll 1967. The Marine (fore-ground) is using a 20-powerM49 observation telescope forspotting targets. The others aresighting Unertl-equippedModel 70 Winchesters. (WilliamD. Abbott.)A Third Marine Regiment Scout-Sniper Platoon sergeantduring operations near Cam Lo (March 1967). The sniperrifle is an M1D mounting a M84 telescope. (William D.Abbott.)Veteran USMC rifle team member 1st Lt . Don L. Smith, the COfor HQ Company, Third Marines, at the battalion commandpost at The Rockpile, August 1967. A Distinguished Marksman,Smith competed with a Van Orden Model 70 Winchester,winning the Wright Memorial Trophy at the 1953 NationalMatches (Camp Perry, Ohio). The same rifle was among theModel 70s shipped to RVN as supplemental sniping equipmentearly in the war. (Don L. Smith.)116
SNIPER PLATOONThe “Rockpile,” a 700-foot-high hill described officially as “a cork to the valleys leading down from North Vietnam from thenorth and west” (major North Vietnamese Army infiltration routes). “Mutter’s Ridge” is at the right, the “Razor Back” on theleft. As Don L. Smith related, “An OP could look across the DMZ directly into North Vietnam from The Rockpile.” Thephotograph was taken “looking north” from the battalion command post (1967). (Don L. Smith.)Marine Sgt. Bjorn A.G. Dahlin, from Sweden, a squadleader with Third Marines Scout-Sniper Platoon at TheRockpile, 1967. The “Swede,” as Dahlin was known, hadserved with an elite Swedish commando unit in Africaand Cyprus with United Nations Emergency Forcesbefore enlisting in the Marine Corps. (Don L. Smith.)117
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