In fact, she thinks you're a киска.
In fact, she thinks you're a киска.
She day tripped her sniping, which is very different than being behind enemy lines for days or weeks on end, with little to no support...
Lyudmila Mykhailvna Pavlichenko was born in 1916 in Balaya Tserkov, a Ukranian town just outside of Kiev. Her father was a St. Petersburg factory worker father, and her mother was a teacher. Pavlichenko described herself as a tomboy who was “unruly in the class room” but athletically competitive, and who would not allow herself to be outdone by boys “in anything.”
“When a neighbor’s boy boasted of his exploits at a shooting range,” she told the crowds, “I set out to show that a girl could do as well. So I practiced a lot.” After taking a job in an arms plant, she continued to practice her marksmanship, then enrolled at Kiev University in 1937, intent on becoming a scholar and teacher. There, she competed on the track team as a sprinter and pole vaulter, and, she said, “to perfect myself in shooting, I took courses at a sniper’s school.”
She was in Odessa when the war broke out and Romanians and Germans invaded. “They wouldn’t take girls in the army, so I had to resort to all kinds of tricks to get in,” Pavlichenko recalled, noting that officials tried to steer her toward becoming a nurse. To prove that she was as skilled with a rifle as she claimed, a Red Army unit held an impromptu audition at a hill they were defending, handing her a rifle and pointing her toward a pair of Romanians who were working with the Germans. “When I picked off the two, I was accepted,” Pavlichenko said, noting that she did not count the Romanians in her tally of kills “because they were test shots.”
Yep, the Soviets were down to non-shaving boys and cane-borne old men.
During WWII, the US had roughly 10% of the entire population in uniform; that would be 20% of all males.
An even higher percentage of military-age males.
Toward the end, we were drafting men with flat feet, half-blind, half-deaf.
Roger Young was a good example.
But we never sent women to fight.
Nor should we have.
"Many women were unprepared for the harsh living conditions and tense gender relations they faced in combat units. Others were recruited despite the fact that they were ill, pregnant, unqualified, or unfit for military service. Some female soldiers struggled to adapt to military life, leading them to resort to extreme measures such as desertion or suicide."
Trite. Give us a call when half of America has been conquered and its a fight for national survival. And they don’t use them in the Russian infantry after the war ended.
She was a sniper, not the same thing as a front line soldier. Women snipers were needed because so many men were dead, or otherwise needed on the front lines, such as they were during the Battle of Stalingrad.