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  1. Newsgroups: sci.military
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ciss!law7!military
  3. From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
  4. Subject: Re: Snipers at Stalingrad
  5. Message-ID: <C17vrK.Ex3@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  6. Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
  7. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  8. References: <C124LH.78q@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <C15y9p.K44@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  9. Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:38:07 GMT
  10. Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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  14. From fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
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  16. In article <C15y9p.K44@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> z_kupkams@ccsvax.sfasu.edu writes:
  17. >    Also, John Denver ( Yes the Singer ) was a sniper in Vietnam, and I believe
  18. >that he had 70+ confirmed kills. 80 to 100 does sound reasonable for
  19. >Stalingrad.
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  21. >[mod note -- I asked Michael for confirmation of this, and he replied that
  22. >he had read it in a non-military publication.  Can any other readers out there
  23. >verify that John Denver was a U.S. Army sniper? 
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  25. I don't know anything about Denver, but I have heard of another famous,
  26. unlikely personality who was: Dr. Ruth (the sweet, grandmotherly, sex
  27. "expert"/therapist/whatever) was a sniper in the Isreali army in the
  28. early 1950s)... (Yes... I do have a source: P. J. O'Rourke's interview
  29. with her...)
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  31.                                                   Frank Crary
  32.                                                   CU Boulder
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