Adam Elsdon Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 (edited) I was reading up on this after seeing that film "Enemy at the Gates" i found the female sniper aspect interesting. It turns out they were exceptionally lethal to the Germans 309 [inc. 36 snipers] Ludmila Mihaylovna Pavlichenko (54th rifle regiment) ~300 Natalia V. Kovshova and Maria Polivanova (528th rifle regiment) female team 242 Liba Rugova 155 Yekaterina Zhdanova 143 Inna Semyonovna Mudretsova 125 Tatiana Ignatovna Kostyrina (691st rigle regiment) 107 N.P. Petrova 100+ Roza Shanina Vasily Zaytsev portrayed in the film wasnt bad, but he doesnt top the score board 242 [inc. 11 snipers] Vasiliy Grigorievich Zaytsev (1047th rifle regiment) But nowhere near the top Russian sniper of WW2 702 Mihail Ilyich Surkov (4th rifle division) The numbers at the start are for "Confirmed Kills" seems the actual total was far higher in reality. Anyway here is a picture of the lovely Miss Pavlichenko with the tools of her trade, by my tally 8 female russian soldiers accounted for nearly 1500 confirmed German troops, which is an exceptionally effective fighting force by any means Edited December 5, 2009 by Adam Elsdon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Here's one for you :coffee: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 So Lee......when will Hollywood snap you up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
private mw Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 enemy at the gates a great film :coffee: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john wheatley (R.I.P.) Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 Ludmila Pavlichenko was invited to America where she was given an award for the number of soldiers she had shot. Woody Guthrie took an old folk song and rewrote it in her honour. Regards, John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berna2vm Posted December 6, 2009 Share Posted December 6, 2009 But how many Russians fell to German snipers... The training and dedication of Waffen SS soldiers must have counted for something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Elsdon Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 Not so many as far as i can tell, the Germans, British or Americans didnt take on the Sniper role any where near as seriously as the Russians did, this translated into later doctrine during the cold war the eastern bloc countries had alot of sniper training especially compared with the wests forces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Elsdon Posted December 6, 2009 Author Share Posted December 6, 2009 enemy at the gates a great film :coffee: Interestingly one website i was reading about Russian Snipers translated from russian, thought that they were portayed like idiots in the film! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berna2vm Posted December 7, 2009 Share Posted December 7, 2009 Not idiots but people who were in as much fear of a commissar putting a bullet in their backs as the Wehrmacht shooting them from the front, poor sods... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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