Chuck Mawhinney went from teenage run-ins with the law to the Marines' most efficient marksman in Vietnam. Courtesy of Chuck Mawhinney In Vietnam’s An Hoa Basin on Valentine’s Day, 1969, US Marine ...
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 ...
The deadliest sniper in Marine Corps history is Charles "Chuck" Mawhinney. During the Vietnam War, he had 103 confirmed kills and 216 probable kills over 16 months in country. But the legendary sniper ...
The US Marine Corps’ deadliest sniper, Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney, who went nearly two decades avoiding any recognition for his kill record until it was revealed in a book, has died. Mawhinney died at ...
The Oregon Senate and House of Representatives have both passed a resolution honoring the late Charles “Chuck” Mawhinney, the longtime Baker City resident who holds the Marine Corps records for ...
Professor Emeritus at Metropolitan State University of Denver died at St. Anthony’s Hospital, Lakewood, CO, of complications following a massive heart attack on March 24, 2015. He was born April 14, ...
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 ...