Lyudmila Pavlichenko Deadliest Female Sniper
During the dark years of the First World War, in the market city of Bila Tserkva (White Church) near Kiev in the Russian Ukraine, a young girl was born. This young girl, Lyudmila Mikhailivna Pavlichenko, would become the most dangerous women of the twentieth century. Into her crosshairs walked thousands of German invaders during the great campaigns of the Second World War’s Eastern Front. Of those thousands, no less than 309 Axis soldiers met their end from a 7.62x54mm sniper’s bullet from her gun.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko is the highest scoring and most deadly female sniper in any army in any war.
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