Amazing Woman Defending Her Country Against the Nazis

"She looked like a model, with well-manicured nails, fashionable clothes, and hairstyle.

"Pavlichenko told the recruiter that she wanted to carry a rifle and fight. The man just laughed and asked her if she knew anything about rifles."

Despite pulling out her marksmanship certificate?to prove her shooting competency, she was still not accepted.

"They wouldn’t take girls in the army, so I had to resort to all kinds of tricks to get in," Pavlichenko recalled, reports?Smithsonian.

Wanting her to show she was as skilled with a rifle as she made out, a Red Army unit held an impromptu trial at a hill they were defending and handed her a gun.

She picked off two Romanians working with the Germans pointed out to her with ease and was immediately enlisted in the 25th Capayec Rifle Division.

Pavlichenko wasted no time in proving herself as a formidable sniper, gunning down 187 Nazis with her first 75 days at war.

With her unrivalled success and escalating reputation came more treacherous missions, and after recording 187 kills in Odessa alone, she was moved to Crimea to fight in the battle of Sevastopol.

The young officer was assigned the riskiest assignments of all, countersniping - which saw her face off with enemy snipers one on one.

But Pavlichenko's skills did not fail her, and she was victorious in every duel she took on, some of which could last a whole day and night - killing 36 opponents in such matches."

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