Lyudmila Pavlichenko was one of the top scoring snipers of World War II, with 309 recorded kills. She died on October 10th, 1974.
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In June 1941, when Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, Lyudmila Pavlichenko left her university studies and ignored the offer of a position as a nurse to become one of Soviet Russia's 2000 female snipers. Less than a year later she had 309 record... SEE MORE