Sergeant Gareth Owen’s sniper’s rifle was a short magazine Lee-Enfield No. 3 Mark 1 (T), fitted with a Pattern 18 telescopic sight of X3 magnification.
He carefully set the wind scale and made a lateral adjustment to the telescope’s range drum. A Nazi head came into the sights, and Gareth’s crooked finger took the first gentle but deadly pressure on the trigger…
Note: Original released as Commando No 121 (June 1964) and re-issued as No 659 (July 1972).
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