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Ask any Marine about the service’s greatest snipers, and a flurry of references to the legendary Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock are sure to flood the conversation. Yet it was another sniper, Charles ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. — Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney, whose 103 confirmed kills during the Vietnam War made him the deadliest sniper in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps, died Feb. 12. He was 75. Mawhinney ...

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That count also makes him the deadliest sniper of the entire Vietnam War. For many years, Mawhinney did not boast or make public his record of confirmed kills. He didn't even go into detail with those ...

Chuck Mawhinney, the Camp Pendleton Marine who became the deadliest sniper in the corps’ history while serving in the Vietnam War, died on Monday at his home in Baker City, Oregon. He was 75. The ...