Recruited at the age of 41, from miscellaneous to sniper ace He was a natural hunter
Operation Barbarossa
On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany tore up the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact with the former Soviet Union and launched a major attack on the former Soviet Union. 4.5 million troops launched blitzkriegs against the Soviet Union from Poland, Finland and Romania. At the beginning of the war, the Soviet Union was completely rubbed on the ground by Nazi Germany, and the army suffered heavy losses, and in order to replenish the troops, it had to start recruiting adult men from the country to join the army. Our protagonist, Semyon Nomokonov, appears.
A natural hunter
Semyon Nomokonov is a yellow man. In the former Soviet Union, they were known as the Evenki, while on the mainland they were one of the ethnic minorities of the Evenk, meaning "people who lived in the mountains and forests", and they were mainly distributed in the mountains and mountains of Siberia, Russia, and Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, China, where they lived for a living, fishing and hunting.
On August 12, 1900, Semyon Nomokonov was born into a hunter family in the village of Tereze in the Sliedensk district of Lake Baikal on the Far East. Influenced by traditional culture and family environment, Semyon Nomokonov learned hunting skills from an early age, and from the age of 7 he picked up a shotgun to learn to hunt animals in the dense taiga forest, after all, he would go hungry if he could not catch his prey. Semyon Nomokonov, who grew up in such an environment, developed a pair of "eagle eyes" with amazing eyesight, whether it was an elk or a pheasant, he could not escape his eyes in the vast forest.
Enlisted
Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, completely changing the trajectory of his life. Due to heavy losses in the early stages of the war, Nomokonov, who was 41 years old at the time, was drafted into the army, and because of his age, short stature and language communication problems, he was driven from the combat company to the kitchen to do chores, and later because he "did not cut bread" he was driven to the ambulance team by the chef to carry a stretcher.
But during a battle on August 16, 1941, the hunter's instincts were aroused. Nomokonov was treating the wounded, but his keen eyesight in the mountains allowed him to spot a German soldier in the distant grass approaching in an attempt to sneak in. Without much hesitation, Nomokonov grabbed a rifle and, with years of hunter experience, raised his hand and shot at the German soldier with almost no aiming motion, knocking the German soldier to the ground. Subsequently, his deeds were widely spread among the troops, and when the commanders learned about it, they attached great importance to him and deliberately included him in the sniper platoon, after all, everyone wanted to have a "Vasily Zaitsev" in their own troops. At this point, Semyon Nomokonov completed the transformation from a miscellaneous to a legendary sniper.
Nickname: "Shaman Priest"
He snipeed eight German soldiers in the Valdai Heights and helped the wounded commander evacuate safely from the danger zone. Like our legendary sniper Zhang Taofang on the Korean battlefield, Nomokonov used an ordinary Mosin Nagant rifle without a scope, and his superior eyesight replaced the scope.
The Evenk people are shamanistic, and Nomokonov, who is an Evenk, is also very religious, and it is said that before each battle, Nomokomov will perform a prayer ceremony in the hope that the ancestors and gods will bless him. As a hunter group in the mountains, in order to ensure that he is not discovered by his prey, Nomokonov has been good at camouflage since he was a child, and has applied camouflage skills to combat operations, and animal furs, leaves, and dry grass can be fully utilized by him.
Unlike in film and television dramas, the best way to deal with snipers in real combat is to determine the position and use powerful artillery fire to kill them, which is shown in the part of Li Yannian in last year's popular TV series "Meritorious Service". As the war progressed, Nomokonov's record grew higher and higher. The Germans also noticed the presence of the yellow sniper. They began to devote their energies to encircling the sharpshooter, but Nomoknov was always able to escape, of which he was wounded eight times, twice by artillery fire.
In early 1942, Nomokonov was given a Mosin Nagant rifle with an optical sight, and since then he has been active on the Eastern Front, with more and more Nazi German soldiers falling under his gun. By September 1942, the number of enemy destroyers in Nomokonov had reached 222.
Nomokonov not only excelled on the battlefield, but was also an excellent instructor. During World War II, he trained more than 150 snipers for the Red Army, training young soldiers in an easy-to-understand teaching method. Best known for his compatriot and assistant, Togon Sankiev, who killed a total of 186 German soldiers and officers before his death in 1942.
Death pipes
Nomokonov is also an old smoking gun that can't leave his hand. He always took a pipe when he was not on a combat mission, and smoked it from time to time even when he was received by Marshal Zhukov.
But his pipe was no ordinary pipe, it was densely carved with small dots and crosses—small dots represented soldiers, and crosses represented officers. The pipe was his merit, and in the end he could not be engraved, and the Soviet military high command specially gave him an ivory pipe.
After the war, according to the statistics of his infantry regiment, Nomokonov killed a total of 367 enemies, including a German major general, 7 of whom were killed by the Japanese Kwantung Army after the surrender of Germany when he came with his troops to the northeast of the mainland.
Nomokonov, who received the Lenin Medal, the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Red Banner, returned to his hometown after the war to work on a state farm until his retirement, where he died in 1973.
According to his son's recollection, Nomokonov rarely took the initiative to tell others about the war. But once he received a letter from a German woman asking if his pipe had a mark on his pipe from her son, Gustav Erich, and asked him: "When you killed so many people, did you pray for them?" The low-key old man asked his son to write a reply: "I can't remember the name of every Nazi soldier who died under my gun, only that your son invaded our homeland with other Nazis, and when you see with your own eyes what your son did in Leningrad, I believe you must curse them to hell!" "