How a US Soldier's 'Zig-Zag Trick' Killed 39 Germans on D-Day and Saved His Brothers In Arms

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Discover why Staff Sergeant Walter Ehlers, a Kansas farmer armed with a standard M1 Garand, utilized the muscle memory of shooting jackrabbits on the American plains to single-handedly dismantle three fortified German positions in the Normandy bocage.

...proving that the instinctive mathematics of hunting moving targets could defeat the mechanical precision of Wehrmacht defensive doctrine.

Explore the intense close-quarters combat of June 9-10, 1944, near Goville, France, where Ehlers faced overlapping MG42 machine gun nests capable of firing 1,200 rounds per minute. Analyze the specific "zigzag" movement technique he employed to exploit the tracking lag of heavy German weaponry, allowing him to close the distance and neutralize two machine gun crews and a mortar team at point-blank range. Learn how a bullet passed through his haversack—piercing a bar of soap, a photo of his mother, and an entrenching tool—before wounding him, yet failed to stop him from retrieving a Browning Automatic Rifle under fire to cover his squad’s withdrawal.

...revealing how the reflexes honed by subsistence hunting can translate into a tactical advantage that no military manual could teach, saving the lives of twelve men who otherwise would have died in a French field.

Perfect for students of infantry tactics, D-Day historians, and anyone interested in the 1st Infantry Division's advance through Normandy.

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How a US Soldier's 'Zig-Zag Trick' Killed 39 Germans on D-Day and Saved His Brothers In Arms

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