Word: sniper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Captain Poter Cochrane, D.S.C., of the Cameron Highlanders, Raden Kadir, a student from the Netherlands East Indies, Miss Yung Wang, who recently escaped from Hong Kong, Nikolai Krasavchenko, leader of the Moscow Youth Organization, and Vladmir Pchelintsev, Russian sniper, will make up the visiting party...
Junior Lieut. Liudmila Pavlichenko, Russian Army girl sniper who killed 309 Germans, had to cancel a radio interview in Manhattan last week because a dentist pulled one of her front teeth and the resulting whistle would have been noticeable on the air waves. But in a non-radio interview with Commentator Alice Hughes, she gave her unvarnished opinion of the U.S. woman's angle...
...battle, Lieut. Pavlichenko commands men as well as women, wears trousers. But, she insists, she is a womanly sniper...
...week how she felt when she picked off her first Nazi, she replied: "How can a human being feel when killing a poisonous snake?" Her score is actually 311. She explained that the first two were not Germans, but Rumanians, and only "trial shots" to qualify her as a sniper...
Fellow delegates escorted her to Washington: Sniper Vladimir Ptchelintzev, 23, credited with killing 152 Germans in 154 shots; pale, studious-looking Nikolai Krasavchenko, 26, in charge of keeping Moscow supplied with fuel...