{"id":828,"date":"2011-04-02T12:33:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T10:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=828"},"modified":"2014-06-29T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T18:29:52","slug":"heroes-portraits-lyudmila-pavlichenko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/04\/heroes-portraits-lyudmila-pavlichenko\/","title":{"rendered":"Heroe\u20ac\u2122s Portraits: Lyudmila Pavlichenko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a female Soviet sniper during World War II. \u00a0 She is credited with 309 confirmed kills and was awarded the Soviet Union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest medal for bravery, the Hero of the Soviet Union in 1943. \u00a0 After being wounded by a mortar in 1942 she was pulled from combat because of her growing fame and was commissioned. \u00a0 She spent the rest of the war as an instructor at a sniper school. \u00a0 After the war she completed a degree and spent the rest of her life working as a historian, mostly with the Russian Navy. \u00a0 Hero of the Soviet Union Citations are very difficult to find, even in their native Russian versions. \u00a0 I could not find a copy of her award citation although she is profiled on many other places on the internet. \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincelewis.net\/sniper.html\">This is perhaps the best profile page of her I found.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>If anyone knows where to find a copy of her citation, please let me know.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Lyudmila Pavlichenko \" src=\"http:\/\/www.badassoftheweek.com\/pavlichenko1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"273\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyudmila Pavlichenko was a female Soviet sniper during World War II. \u00a0 She is credited with 309 confirmed kills and was awarded the Soviet Union\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s highest medal for bravery, the Hero of the Soviet Union in 1943. \u00a0 After being&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/04\/heroes-portraits-lyudmila-pavlichenko\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,1225],"tags":[116,115],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-heroes-portraits","category-modern-global-conflict","tag-hero-of-the-soviet-union","tag-heroism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}