Top 57 Snipers Of WW2
 

This list is not 100 % accurate. If anyone has the old one it would be greatly appreciated. Reviving a classic thread biggrin:

kills country name
494 USSR Nikolay Yakovlevich Ilyin
~500 USSR Ivan Mikhailovich Sidorenko
489 USSR Ivan Nikolayevich Kulbertinov
456 [inc. 14 snipers] USSR Vladimir N. Pchelintsev
437 USSR Mikhail Ivanovich Budenkov until September 1944; ~100 - by machinegun
429 [inc. ? snipers] USSR Fyodor Matveyevich Ohlopkov not including machinegun score
425 USSR Fyodor Trofimovich Dyachenko
422 [inc. 70(!) snipers] USSR Vasilij Ivanovich Golosov until June 1943
417 USSR Afanasij Gordienko
412 USSR Stepan Vasilievich Petrenko the data of September 1944
400+ USSR G.I. Kostyrina female
387 USSR Fyodor Kharchenko
380 USSR Pyotr A. Goncharov the data of July 1943
367 [inc. a general] USSR Semen D. Nomokonov sniper-only score
362 USSR Ivan Petrovich Antonov
349 USSR Abdukhani Idrisov until March 1944
346 USSR Philipp Yakovlevich Rubakho
345 USSR Leonid Butkevich
345 Germany Matthias Hetzenauer
340 USSR I.I. Markin
331 USSR Victor Ivanovich Medvedev
328 USSR Ilya L. Grigoriev
324 USSR Ye. Nikolaev from 1941 to 1942
315 USSR Leonid Yakovlevich Butkevich until July 1943
313 USSR Zhambyl Yesheyevich Tulaev
309 [inc. 36 snipers] USSR Ludmila Mikhajlovna Pavlichenko female
307 USSR Alexander Pavlovich Lebedev until June 1943
307 USSR Vasilij Alexandrovich Titov
305 USSR Ivan Pavlovich Gorelikov
300+ USSR Gennadij Iosifovich Velichko until July 1943
300 USSR Moisej Timofeyevich Usik until October 1943
~300 USSR Nikolaj Stepanovich Vedernikov the data ofcluding machinegun score
~300 USSR Natalia V. Kovshova and Maria Polivanova female team
298 [inc. 5 snipers] USSR Ivan Filippovich Abdulov
279 USSR Yakov Mikhajlovich Smetnev
279 USSR V.M. Bezgolosov
265 USSR Anatolij Chekhov
257 Germany Sepp Allerberg
250 USSR Fyodor Kuzmich Chegodaev until May 1942
248 USSR Ivan Ivanovich Bocharov until March 1944
245 USSR Mikhail Ignatievich Belousov until June 1943
242 [inc. ? snipers] USSR Vasilij Grigorievich Zaitsev
242 USSR Liba Rugova female
240 USSR Yegor Konstantinovich Petrov not including machinegun score
237 [inc. ? snipers] USSR Maxim Passar
226 [inc. 3 snipers] USSR David Teboevich Doev
220 USSR N.V. Nikitin
218 USSR N.F. Semyonov the data of June 1943
215 USSR Vasilij Shalvovich Kvachantiradze until December 1944
202 USSR Mikhail Stepanovich Sokhin until May 1944
~200 USSR Noj Petrovich Adamia
187 USSR M.A. Abbasov the data of the end of 1943
186 USSR Nikolaj Galushkin the data of April 1943
180 Germany Gefreiter Meyer
170 USSR Studentov the data of November 1942
162 USSR N.P. Lepskiy
155 USSR Yekaterina Zhdanova female
150 USSR Pyotr Nikolayevich Sofronov
150 USSR A.A. Kurbanov the data of 1943
143 USSR Inna Semyonovna Mudretsova female
140 USSR P.I. Golichenkov during 1941
134 USSR I.D. Vezhlivtsev the data of January 1942
129 USSR Alexey Afanasievich Mironov until May 1943
125 USSR Tatiana Kostyrina female
125 USSR Feodosij Artyomovich Smolyachkov
120 Germany Ole Dir
117 USSR S.P. Loskutov the data of July 1942
116 USSR Georgiy Konstantinovich Fyodorov
107 USSR N.P. Petrova female
102 USSR Dmitrij Alexeyevich Gulyayev the data of December 1942
100+ USSR Roza Shanina the data of 1944 ; female
CCCP I. Merkulov
CCCP H. Andrukhaev
CCCP P.P. Chernomaz
CCCP N.A. Vakser
CCCP V.S. Bednyagin
91 USSR Aliya Moldagulova female
89 USSR Nina Lobkovskaya female
81 USSR Tatiana Chernova female
77 USSR Nikolaj Vasilievich Prokhorov
76 USSR Lidiya Gudovantseva female
65 USSR Yegor Ivanovich Myreyev
64 Germany Helmut Wirnsberger
63 USSR Alexandra Shlyakhova female
57 USSR P. Gryaznov

they forgot the finnish dude , i'll look for his name later. not many north americans on that list annoy:

Obviouslly. We aren't known to have the best snipers.

242 [inc. ? snipers] USSR Vasilij Grigorievich Zaitsev

cool:

Consider that the North Americans were busy advancing and holding land while the Russians and Germans were taking defensive positions at some point during the war. Defensive positions lend themselves to sniping.

I believe that the Canadians are routinely some of the best sniping teams in the world these days.

camping swine

Simo Hayha was the top Finnish sniper, with about 542 confirmed kills.
Canada's best sniper was James Bedford MacArthur, with about 9 confirmed kills.

http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=2031

Simo Hayha

happy:

Think I posted this a long time ago. I remember it had more canadians on it though. A different list probably.

US,Britain,Canada,etc had snipers but not at the number the Germans or Soviets did.

Movements of the forces had to do with the kills too, as tomxtr said.

didnt US,Britain, and Canada come in a little late for training snipers and sending them out to war?

i know the USSR trained a shit load of snipers, the Germans also trained alot of snipers too, but USSR was all about the sniping.

all the OMFG eLiTe VaSiLlI ZaItSeV SnIpOr OwNz u!!!111 players just got owned on that one.
and I for one cannot imagine killing that many people and being of a mentally sound mind.

forgot pvt.jacksun

20415 people died from all those people. annoy:

... a little more. There were plenty of unconfirmed kills.

[quote="Jin-Roh":d3d53]Simo Hayha was the top Finnish sniper, with about 542 confirmed kills.
Canada's best sniper was James Bedford MacArthur, with about 9 confirmed kills.

[url="http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=2031"]http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=2031[/url][/quote:d3d53]

+1 for you and zoner biggrin:

[img]http://24.58.170.36/466.jpg[/img]

who is that ?? eek:

A random German sniper.

[img]http://img107.exs.cx/img107/5562/russiansnipers0yd.jpg[/img]

this list only contains Russian and german snipers. Their are supposedly 1 Canadian, and few british & north americans that need to be on the list, Their was a top 100 list before. Also note that these snipers have alot more then just their confirmed kill count, if you included the unconfirmed.

[quote="Jin-Roh":d4ba9]... a little more. There were plenty of unconfirmed kills.[/quote:d4ba9]

Yeah, I think WWII snipers usually did their duty without someone around to confirm their kills...as they often tended to work alone most of the time.

Except for Russia. They usually had full squads of sniper teams, working in 2-4's or something.

Snipers/sharpshooters are still quite common in even normal russian light infantry squads. Out of eight men, there would always be a couple guys armed with Dragunovs, which are supplemented by PKM's and the like.

so that's where that dude who used to come here with the ed norton sig got his name from.

sucks that finland and poland got fucked after the war though.

The proper spelling is Simo Häyhä. Seeing as you dont have that letter on your keyboards, I forgive you.

Hmmm... would that make his name pronounced Haiy-hay? oOo: oOo:

[quote="Jin-Roh":71f11]Hmmm... would that make his name pronounced Haiy-hay? oOo: oOo:[/quote:71f11]

yeah how is it pronounced

Hey-ha i believe

The russians had 15 sniper schools. 66% of those went up during the battle for stalingrad. one or two of which was led by Vasili Zaitsev. Though the russians had the most confirmed kills from snipers and were very much feared by the germans, it was the germans who out number the russians in schools 3:1 and snipers 15:1. Unlike the russians german snipers were trained to sit and wait, which is why they were so widely feared throughout the Allied forces, and were also very good at concealing themselves and their shots. just an FYI..their "unconfirmed" kills outnumbered their confirmed 3:1, which would put them well over the russian sniper count biggrin:

Yes, with the A being pronounced like in "and" or "angry".