There are just nine qualified female snipers in the U.S. military today. As that number grows, those women will be comparing themselves to a Russian girl who began working at a munitions factory ...

making her the most successful female sniper in recorded history. Pavlichenko was called "Lady Death" for her ability with a sniper rifle. She served in the Red Army during the siege of Odessa and ...

A FEMALE sniper shamed her doubters by defeating every ... Ukrainian-born Pavlichenko was studying history at Kyiv University when German troops flooded into the Soviet Union.

In early 1941, Lyudmila Pavlichenko was studying history at Kiev University ... Pavlichenko was one of 2,000 female snipers who fought for the Red Army in World War II, and one of the 500 who ...

They achieved changes in the law on polygamy and maternity leave. Nowadays, female sniper units are some of the best in all of Kurdistan. At the third checkpoint of the headquarters of the PUK ...