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A '''cuckoo''' is a [[military slang]] term for a [[sniper]], disguised in a sprawling tree. This word has been particularly applied to the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Winter War]] snipers and the [[World War II]] [[Nazi Germany|German]] snipers, who took pot-shots from hidden vantage points. |
A '''cuckoo''' is a [[military slang]] term for a [[sniper]], disguised in a sprawling tree. This word has been particularly applied to the [[Finland|Finnish]] [[Winter War]] snipers and the [[World War II]] [[Nazi Germany|German]] snipers, who took pot-shots from hidden vantage points. |
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Revision as of 14:00, 9 November 2013
For other uses, see Cuckoo (disambiguation).
A cuckoo is a military slang term for a sniper, disguised in a sprawling tree. This word has been particularly applied to the Finnish Winter War snipers and the World War II German snipers, who took pot-shots from hidden vantage points.
During World War II, before 1944, the German high command left many cuckoos behind as their armies retreated, in order to delay the Soviet rush.[1]
In popular culture
The 2002 Russian film The Cuckoo tells a story of Finnish cuckoo sniper.