Nancy Wake

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Nancy wake

Nancy is a woman and she was born in 30 august 1912; She died in 7 august 2011 in the age of 98. In addition she was born to a poor family in New Zealand. She worked for the Pat O’Leary escape line and the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France for the Allies during World War II.

In 1940, after Wake had moved to Europe and married a millionaire Frenchman, she went to the military recruiting office to be a nurse for the Allied Forces in World War II. She got to work saving Allied pilots that had been shot down and doing whatever was necessary — including bribing guards with huge sums of cash and creating fake identities for the pilots — to return them safely to Britain. Though she began her work in the war as a nurse, Wake transformed her role into a high-level officer trained in espionage and sabotage that led guerilla attacks on Nazi stations. Germany caught wind of her work and put a five million Franc reward out for her capture. The Gestapo called her “The White Mouse” because whenever they seemed to have her cornered, she would somehow escape. In 1943, Wake was on the top of the Gestapo’s most wanted list.

In the next page – a picture of Nancy in 2011.

Achievement

Wake was appointed a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1970 and was promoted to Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1988. Shortly after the war, she was recommended for decorations in Australia but was turned down. Decades later, Australia offered to award her medals but she refused, saying: “The last time there was a suggestion of that I told the government they could stick their medals where the monkey stuck his nuts. The thing is if they gave me a medal now, it wouldn’t be love so I don’t want anything from them.” It was not until February 2004 that Wake was made a Companion of the Order of Australia. In April 2006, she was awarded the Royal New Zealand Returned and Services’ Association’s highest honour, the RSA Badge in Gold. Wake’s medals are on display in the Second World War gallery at the Australian War Memorial Museum in Canberra. On 3 June 2010, a “heritage pylon” paying tribute to Wake was unveiled on Oriental Parade in Wellington, New Zealand, near the place of her birth

bibliography

https://curiosity.com/topics/how-nancy-wake-became-the-gestapos-most-wanted-in-wwii-curiosity/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Wake

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