WOMAN SNIPER
THREE CANADIANS KILLED LONDON, June 13. The Canadians, who had been persistently sniped in a French town, raided a building and found a heavyset woman, with wild eyes, holding a hot-barrelled rifle, says the Daily Express correspondent in Normandy. “I have killed three of your Canadians,” she boasted. She is married to a German soldier who was killed on the beaches. The townsfolk had marked her for extermination, after which she decided to fight it cut on her own. The German High Command spokesman denied General Montgomery’s statement that German women were used as snipers in the Atlantic Wall strongpoints, says the German News Agency. “ Some women employed as auxiliary signallers may have been seen at these points.” The German High Command announced that General Marcks, “ the valiant defender of Cherbourg Peninsula, had been killed in action in the front line at the head of his troops."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25562, 15 June 1944, Page 5
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