Tale of a sniper rifle has double-barrelled ending

Two Australian soldiers were killed and two wounded by sniper fire in the rice fields of Vietnam in January 1966.

During the contact, an injured but determined enemy sniper left a 200-metre blood trail as he crawled to reach an underground tunnel.

Borrowing an Owen Gun with its stock removed from a medic, Sapper (retd) Alan Christie from 3 Field Troop volunteered to pursue and followed in complete darkness.

“I could hear him ahead of me and assumed he could hear me,” Mr Christie said.

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