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Originally Posted by Matt Wiser

Paul, isn't one of the Russian women you refer to Ludmilla Pavalchenko? She had 303 confirmed kills before being pulled from combat duty on Stalin's orders and sent on good-will visits to Britain, Canada, and the U.S. When she got back, she was commissioned as an officer and given a free hand to set up a sniper school and to be the OINC. That's also the Soviet system: there were captains and majors galore, but she was a Senior Lt., and since there was this order from Uncle Joe appointing her OINC of the school, guess who those guys had to click their heels to?

Thanks; I am always forgetting her name.