Danutė Stanelienė (20 April 1922 – 8 August 1994) was a machine gunner in the 167th Infantry Regiment of the 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division during World War II.

[4][5] Stanelienė first saw combat in the Battle of Kursk in Panskaya village where she gained respect from her colleagues for her techniques and patience.

[5] After being released from the hospital and rejoining her regiment, she fought in the battle to retake a train station in the village of Rodnye.

[2][6] She was awarded her second Order of Glory on 26 August 1944 for her actions near the city of Polotsk in early July, in which she established her machine gun post on the line of fire and repelled thirteen counterattacks, waiting for enemy infantry to approach before shooting them at nearly point-blank range.

[8][1] After the end of the war, Stanelienė was demobilized from the Red Army with the rank of starshina and worked for a local district committee of the Communist Party and later the Council of Ministers in Vilnius before managing the human resources department of a plastics factory.

She was part of the 1970 Victory Day Parade in Moscow and was assigned to walk in the front row of marchers with other full bearers of the Order of Glory.