They mocked his mail order rifle laughed at the little scope, called it a deer gun, a vanity project shipped from an Illinois catalog. On Guadalcanal, in the coconut groves west of Point Cruz where Japanese snipers had dropped 14 Americans in 72 hours, Second Lieutenant John George carried it anyway. Four days later, that same “toy” had ended 11 snipers and started a fight he never saw coming.
On the morning of January 22nd, 1943, Second Lieutenant John George crouched in the ruins of a Japanese bunker west of Point Cruz, watching a banyan tree 240 yard away …
They mocked his mail order rifle laughed at the little scope, called it a deer gun, a vanity project shipped from an Illinois catalog. On Guadalcanal, in the coconut groves west of Point Cruz where Japanese snipers had dropped 14 Americans in 72 hours, Second Lieutenant John George carried it anyway. Four days later, that same “toy” had ended 11 snipers and started a fight he never saw coming. Read More
