The Scope He Had Mailed to Guadalcanal

John George took a scope from home into Guadalcanal's jungle. His own memoir tells a different story from the tree-sniper legend. He was a first lieutenant. His Winchester Model 70 stayed off the island. He used a scoped Army Springfield. We follow his account in Shots Fired in Anger. In this film: 1st Lt John B. George · Lt Art Hantel · Lt Col George F. Ferry · Col. Alexander M. George · S/Sgt James O. Fornelli · Maj. Jim Collins · 132nd Infantry (Illinois National Guard) · Americal Division · Merrill's Marauders (5307th Composite Unit (Provisional)) · Mount Austen (Hill 27, the Gifu) · Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands · Point Cruz · Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides · Henderson Field · 8 December 1942 – 9 February 1943 CHAPTERS 0:00 Something Moving in the Tree 2:38 Targets That Shoot Back 5:01 The Scope in the Mail 9:08 An Enemy Without a Muzzle Flash 13:21 The Mountain You Could Not See Into 15:38 A Bunch of Damned Leaves 19:09 Wrapped Leggings 22:06 Might Be a Lizard 24:35 The Palm Alley 28:03 The Rifle That Proved Him Wrong SOURCES Shots Fired in Anger: A Rifleman's-Eye View of the Activities on the Island of Guadalcanal — John B. George (1947) Guadalcanal: The First Offensive — John Miller Jr., US Army Center of Military History (1949) Merrill's Marauders (February–May 1944), American Forces in Action — War Department, Historical Division (1945) "Japanese Defensive Tactics in the Solomons", Tactical and Technical Trends No. 10 — War Department, Military Intelligence Service (1942) "Notes from Guadalcanal", Tactical and Technical Trends No. 35 — War Department, Military Intelligence Service (1943) CREDITS Alaska Senate Majority, via Wikimedia Commons CMH, Miller 1949 CMH, Miller 1949, via HyperWar Drawing by Sgt. Howard Brodie, Yank staff artist, 1942–43; Library of Congress Prints & Photographs, Drawings (Documentary) collection John B. George, Shots Fired in Anger (Samworth, 1947), digitized by Google from Univ. of Michigan, via Internet Archive John B. George, Shots Fired in Anger (Samworth, 1947), digitized by Google from Univ. of Michigan, via Internet Archive; drawing by Hideo John B. George, Shots Fired in Anger (Samworth, 1947), digitized by Google from Univ. of Michigan, via Internet Archive; drawing by Tsurita John Miller, jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (US Army CMH, 1949; CMH Pub 5-3), via Internet Archive Mapping Sub-Section, C-2, I Marine Amphibious Corps, USMC, Dec 1942, via Wikimedia Commons National Archives, via Wikimedia Commons Signal Corps Archive via Wikimedia Commons Text: Tactical and Technical Trends No. 10, War Department MIS, 22 Oct 1942 (via Lone Sentry). Reconstruction. U.S. War Department, via Wikimedia Commons US Army Signal Corps photo SC163970, via Wikimedia Commons US Army photo (Miller 1949), via Wikimedia Commons US Army photo in J. Miller Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (CMH, 1949), p.216, fig. "Americal Division Reinforcements Landed 8 December", via Internet Archive US Army photo in J. Miller Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (CMH, 1949), p.226, fig. "Bridges and Roads", via Internet Archive US Army photo in J. Miller Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (CMH, 1949), p.234, fig. "Mount Austen's Dominant Position", via Internet Archive US Army photo in J. Miller Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (CMH, 1949), p.236, fig. "Supply Movement to Mount Austen", via Internet Archive US Army photo in J. Miller Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (CMH, 1949), p.242, fig. "The Gifu", via Internet Archive US Army photo in J. Miller Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (CMH, 1949), p.248, fig. "The Mount Austen Battle Area", via Internet Archive US Army photo in J. Miller Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (CMH, 1949), p.256, fig. "The First January Offensive Zone", via Internet Archive US Army photo in J. Miller Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (CMH, 1949), p.291, fig. "Japanese Positions in the Gifu", via Internet Archive US Army photo in J. Miller Jr., Guadalcanal: The First Offensive (CMH, 1949), p.302, fig. "35th Infantry Troops Leave the Line", via Internet Archive US Army photo, Miller 1949 US Signal Corps, via Wikimedia Commons USMC Archives, Archives Branch, Marine Corps History Division, Thayer Soule Collection (COLL/2266), via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) War Department, Historical Division, Merrill's Marauders (1945), via Internet Archive (Google / Univ. of Michigan scan) Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... — tracks: "Aftermath", "Anguish", "Clean Soul", "Dark Walk", "Deep Haze", "Dreamer", "Heartwarming", "Lightless Dawn", "Long Note Four", "Long Note Three", "Long Note Two", "Ossuary 6 - Air", "Unanswered Questions" #WW2History #Guadalcanal #MilitaryHistory