Female Red Army sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko, nicknamed "Lady Death", fought mainly in sieges of Odessa & Sevastopol. She has 309 total confirmed kills, including 36 Axis snipers.

Pavlichenko now in USA, on a Soviet publicity tour to persuade Western allies to open a second front against Nazis: "Gentlemen, I am 25 years old & I have killed 309 fascist invaders by now. Don& #39;t you think that you have been hiding behind my back for too long?"

Lyudmila Pavlichenko was evacuated by submarine from Sevastopol after being hit by mortar shrapnel in June. A mortar shell also killed her husband of a few weeks, fellow sniper Alexei Kitsenko.