Miss Pavlichenko

Watched Battle for Sevastopol last night.  A Russian movie celebrating the life of Lyudmila Pavlichenko.  A university student at the outbreak of World War II, she joined the Soviet Army as a sniper and amassed 309 confirmed kills, the highest for a female sniper.  

The movie notes that after severe wounds in 1942, she was sent on a Soviet goodwill mission to the US, Canada and Britain.  In the US, she meets Woody Guthrie who composes a song for her.  

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Miss Pavlichenko

by Woody Guthrie

Miss Pavilichenko's well known to fame

Russia's your country, fighting is your game

The whole world will love her for a long time to come,

For more than three hundred nazis fell by your gun

Fell by your gun, yes,

Fell by your gun

For more than three hundred nazis fell by your gun

Miss Pavlichenko's well known to fame

Russia's your country, fighting is your game

Your smile shines as bright as any new morning sun

But more than three hundred nazidogs fell by your gun

Fell by your gun, yes,

Fell by your gun

For more than three hundred nazis fell by your gun

In your mountains and canyons quiet as the deer

Down in your bigtrees knowing no fear

You lift up your sight And down comes a hun

And more than three hundred nazidogs fell by your gun

Fell by your gun, yes,

Fell by your gun

For more than three hundred nazis fell by your gun

In your hot summer's heat, in your cold wintery snow,

In all kinds of weather you track down your foe

This world will love your sweet face the same way I've done,

'Cause more than three hundred nazzy hound fell by your gun

Fell by your gun, yes,

Fell by your gun

For more than three hundred nazis fell by your gun

I'd hate to drop in a parachute and land an enemy in your land

If your Soviet people make it so hard on invadin' men

I wouldn't crave to meet that wrong end of such a pretty lady's gun

If her name was Pavlichenko, and mine Three O One