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Soviet sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko who, by the end of World War II, was credited with 309 kills (which included 36 enemy snipers), making her the most successful female sniper in history.
(armed here with a Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic (3.5X) rifle)
Pavlichenko was among the first to volunteer after the German invasion of the USSR, and she was assigned to the Red Army's 25th Rifle Division. She made her first kills at Belyayevka.
Most of her remaining kills were made near Odessa.
Of the 2,000 female snipers in the Red Army, only 500 lived to see the war's end.
Pavlichenko was born on 12th July in 1916 and died in 1974.
(Colorised by Olga Shirnina from Russia)
(armed here with a Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic (3.5X) rifle)
Pavlichenko was among the first to volunteer after the German invasion of the USSR, and she was assigned to the Red Army's 25th Rifle Division. She made her first kills at Belyayevka.
Most of her remaining kills were made near Odessa.
Of the 2,000 female snipers in the Red Army, only 500 lived to see the war's end.
Pavlichenko was born on 12th July in 1916 and died in 1974.
(Colorised by Olga Shirnina from Russia)