ONE RIFLE THE ARMY DIDN’T APPROVE | The Sniper Who Changed Guadalcanal (WW2)

Subscribe to OVERRIDE War for true, cinematic World War II stories you’ve never heard before. January 1943. Guadalcanal. Fourteen American soldiers are dead—killed silently by Japanese snipers hidden high in the jungle canopy. Standard tactics have failed. Patrols find nothing. The enemy is invisible. Then one officer steps forward with a rifle the U.S. Army never approved. This is the true story of Second Lieutenant John George—an Illinois state shooting champion who brought a civilian hunting rifle into combat and used it to hunt the hunters. Over four days, armed with a Winchester Model 70 and nothing but patience, skill, and discipline, George eliminated eleven enemy snipers and forced the U.S. Army to rethink modern sniper warfare. This is not a story about regulations. It’s a story about expertise. About silence. And about how one unapproved rifle changed the course of a battle in the Pacific. 🎖 Based on real historical events 🎞 Black-and-white cinematic documentary style 🌴 Guadalcanal • Pacific Theater • World War II If you enjoy forgotten war stories, sniper history, and true combat accounts told with respect and realism, consider subscribing and sharing your thoughts in the comments. Where are you watching from? And which untold WW2 story should we cover next? TIMESTAMP: 00:00:00 – One Rifle the Army Didn’t Approve 00:02:30 – Fourteen Dead in the Jungle 00:05:00 – The Snipers in the Trees 00:07:30 – The First Shot 00:10:00 – Hunted and Hunting 00:12:30 – Mortars Find the Bunker 00:15:00 – The Final Duel Begins 00:17:30 – Eleven Shots, Eleven Targets 00:20:00 – Training the Army’s First Snipers 00:22:30 – The Rifle That Changed Doctrine