German Sniper Killed American Soldier in LeipZig [ 1945 ]





Picture taken minutes before Raymond J. Bowman (on the right) was killed, the other soldier is Clarence Ridgeway (on the left).

Amid the last days of the war a unit of heavy weapons specialists entered a Leipzig building searching for positions to set up covering shoot focuses which would ensure troopers of the second U.S. Infantry progressing over the extension. Two individuals from the company found an open overhang which instructed on unhindered perspective of the scaffold, set up their weapon. For some time one warrior shot the firearm while the other sustained it. At that point one fighter went inside and the other kept an eye on the indisputable evidence alone. Wile assimilated in reloading it, a German expert sharpshooter's slug from the road punctured his brow. He folded to the floor, dead.War picture taker Robert Capa moved through an overhang window into the level to photo the dead man, who expose in the entryway, a plundered Luftwaffe sheepskin cap on his head. The ensuing arrangement of photos demonstrate the quick spread of the trooper's blood over the parquet floor as different GIs took care of him and his kindred heavy weapons specialist assumed control over his post at the assault rifle. "It was a clean, by one means or another extremely delightful passing and I believe that is the thing that I recollect most from the war", Capa reviewed two years after the fact in a radio meeting.And here is the end result of the post to see the dead body of the American soldier shot dead by a German sniper shooter