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Female Russian Snipers
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HeatherW762
Re: Female Russian Snipers
I seem to remember Heather has a pink rifle if that counts?
I'm also about to get a metallic pink accessoried colt 1911 :lol: :lol: :lol:
Heather
I'm also about to get a metallic pink accessoried colt 1911 :lol: :lol: :lol:
Heather
Re: Female Russian Snipers
Arms like Popeye carrying all that shopping Rob...she packs a wallop for sure 
Pink Guns, like this??
Pink Guns, like this??
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Re: Female Russian Snipers
From the Osprey book Heroines of the Soviet Union
Pvt Natalya Kovshova and Pvt Mariya Polivanova
On August 14 1942, Pvt Kovshova was a member of a sniper unit near the village of Sutoky. They tried to rout the Germans but suffered disastrously during a series of enemy counterattacks. The platoon was cut off from the main group and surrounded. Kovshova and Polivanova fired on the enemy from a trench until they ran out of ammunition. Death was their only option and they kissed each other farewell. They pulled the pins out of their grenades and waited. When their guns fell silent, the Germans cautiously crept forward. The two women detonated their grenades taking some of the enemy with them.
The news of the valiant deaths of Kopvshova and Polivanova spread far and wide, thanks to the report of a survivor. Both recieved the HSU title posthumously on February 14, 1943. The women are buried in the village of Korovitchino in Staraya Russa. At the time of their deaths, they had jointly scored over 300 kills.
Maj Lyudmila Pavlichenko
She scored her first two kills near the village of Belyayevka when her unit was ordered to defend a hill. She fought for two and a half mounths in the region with the division and recorded 187 kills. She used the Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle with a 3.5 telescopic sight.
...In the fierce fighting Pavlichenko was wounded by mortar shells in June 1942. With a record score of 309 kills, her sniping skills were invaluable. She was ordered to board a submarine and evacuate Sevastopol...
Pavilichenko never showed any remorse for the men she killed and stated that it was all in the line of duty. She died on October 10, 1974, aged 58 and is buried at the Novodevichiye Cemetery in Moscow.
Pvt Natalya Kovshova and Pvt Mariya Polivanova
On August 14 1942, Pvt Kovshova was a member of a sniper unit near the village of Sutoky. They tried to rout the Germans but suffered disastrously during a series of enemy counterattacks. The platoon was cut off from the main group and surrounded. Kovshova and Polivanova fired on the enemy from a trench until they ran out of ammunition. Death was their only option and they kissed each other farewell. They pulled the pins out of their grenades and waited. When their guns fell silent, the Germans cautiously crept forward. The two women detonated their grenades taking some of the enemy with them.
The news of the valiant deaths of Kopvshova and Polivanova spread far and wide, thanks to the report of a survivor. Both recieved the HSU title posthumously on February 14, 1943. The women are buried in the village of Korovitchino in Staraya Russa. At the time of their deaths, they had jointly scored over 300 kills.
Maj Lyudmila Pavlichenko
She scored her first two kills near the village of Belyayevka when her unit was ordered to defend a hill. She fought for two and a half mounths in the region with the division and recorded 187 kills. She used the Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle with a 3.5 telescopic sight.
...In the fierce fighting Pavlichenko was wounded by mortar shells in June 1942. With a record score of 309 kills, her sniping skills were invaluable. She was ordered to board a submarine and evacuate Sevastopol...
Pavilichenko never showed any remorse for the men she killed and stated that it was all in the line of duty. She died on October 10, 1974, aged 58 and is buried at the Novodevichiye Cemetery in Moscow.
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Chips308
Re: Female Russian Snipers
I thought Pavlichenko was a Spurs player - definitely a marksman and not seen that often, sounds like a sniper - one in the same?
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