In this case, “best” means “deadliest,” as in the deadliest female sniper in history ... saw action on the Eastern Front, ...

There are just nine qualified female snipers in the U.S. military today. As that number grows, those women will be comparing themselves to a Russian girl who began working at a munitions factory ...

She became the first Soviet soldier to visit the White ... Pavlichenko was one of 2,000 female snipers who fought for the Red Army in World War II, and one of the 500 who survived.