We have all seen the nice B&W photo of a female soldier posted here, so I won't post again (I like the photo and her, after finding out who she was and what she did)

Lyudmila was a snipper in the Red Army, at a time when it looked like her country was going to be taken over by a determined invading army. She fought them bravely.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko