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The women snipers who became some of the deadliest soldiers of WWII

In 1942, the Soviet Union established the Central Women’s Sniper Training School to expand its sniper forces during the war. Among its graduates was Lyudmila Pavlichenko, whose service during battles ...
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She killed 309 enemy soldiers - then the US president invited her to the White House

More than 2,400 women served as snipers in the Soviet Army during World War II, and together they accounted for over 11,000 ...