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How a Hunter from Montana Killed the Ghost of the Hurtgen Forest

November 1944. Deep inside the Hurtgen Forest, Germany. A German sniper had killed 9 American soldiers in 8 days. No fixed position. No predictable pattern. No trace. Two counter-sniper teams went in to find him. Only one came back. The Army tried artillery. It didn't work. The sniper killed a medic 300 yards from the impact zone the very next morning. Captain Weiss had nine crosses on his map and no ideas left. So he sent Private First Class Raymond Cole. Not a trained sniper. Not a scout. A 22-year-old hunting guide from Deer Lodge, Montana — a man who had spent six years reading forests the way other men read text. Cole didn't go in looking for the sniper. He went in looking for where the sniper had been. What he found — and what he did with it — wasn't in any military manual. The Army had no form for it. No category. No official recognition. But nine days after Danny Kowalski fell face-first into the pine needles and nobody could reach him, the trail was open again. And men were walking across it in daylight. This is that story. #WWII #HurtgenForest #History #WorldWar2 #MilitaryHistory #Sniper #UntoldHistory #WW2 #TrueStory #HistoryChannel