Lyudmila Pavlichenko spent the first year of World War Two in constant combat as a front line sniper of Red Army. Wounded four times she survived the terrible sieges of Odessa and Sebastopol by taking some 309 axis soldiers with her rifle. In September 1942 she embarked with the Soviet Military Delegation to the United States, Canada and Great Britain. She was the first Soviet citizen to be received at the White House where she had dinner with President Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor who took very well to the Soviet soldier. She visited 43 North American cities and gave hundreds of speeches.
