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TLT fans: did you guys know about the real Wake? I hadn't heard about her until we covered World War II in my world civ class this semester

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake (1912-2011) was a covert operative who was at the top of the Nazi's most wanted list in WW2, nicknamed "The White Mouse" for her ability to repeatedly evade capture. She was born in New Zealand with Māori heritage, grew up in Australia, and joined the Resistance after traveling to Europe and witnessing the harsh treatment of Jews in Vienna by the Nazis

Wake worked in the Pat O'Leary Line escape network until her Resistance organization was compromised by the Germans in 1942. After that she fled on foot across the Pyrenees—with several close calls that she escaped by flirting with German soldiers—and made her way to England to join the Special Operations Executive. She was part of a three person team codenamed "Freelance" which parachuted into occupied France. During this operation she got stuck in a tree after her parachute became tangled in its branches. The local Resistance leader who found her reportedly said “I hope that all the trees in France bear such beautiful fruit this year" to which she replied "Cut out that French bullshit and get me out of this tree"

While working in the Freelance operation Wake once biked 500 km (310 mi) without stopping in the span of 72 hours across Nazi territory to retrieve a new radio and codes after her team's were destroyed in a Gestapo raid. Without this feat, Freelance would not have been able to communicate with London and there would have been no more supply drops to support their Resistance organization. During the war she was also part of a raid which destroyed the Gestapo headquarters in Montluçon, in which she reportedly killed a Nazi sentry with her bare hands to prevent him from raising an alarm

Wake's fellow operatives described her as "a real Australian bombshell. Tremendous vitality, flashing eyes. Everything she did, she did well. She was an excellent shot, excelled at fieldcraft and put the men to shame by her cheerful spirit and strength of character." "She is the most feminine woman I know until the fighting starts. Then she is like five men." "We both came to the conclusion that she was 10 times the man I would ever be"

By the time of her death in 2011, Wake had been awarded the George Medal by Britain; the Medal of Freedom by the United States; the Médaille de la Résistance, the Croix de Guerre (x3), and the Légion d’Honneur by France; and the Badge in Gold by New Zealand. Due to a complicated relationship with Australia, she originally refused to accept any awards from the Australian government, saying that they could "stick their medals where the monkey stuck his nuts." In 2004, however, she accepted the honor of Companion of the Order of Australia as well

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Lady Spy: Resistance Leader Nancy Wake the White Mouse

Nancy Wakes Early Years Nancy Wake was a nurse, journalist, and the Nazi’s Gestapo worse enemy. She became a resistance fighter for France and a daring spy with a bounty on her head of 5 million Francs.  The German Gestapo gave her the nickname The White Mouse because of her ability to slip through their grasp. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand on Aug 3, 1912 to…

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Nancy Wake

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake. Like many women portrayed in this blog who were either journalists or war heroes, Nancy Wake was a journalist. Unlike most of the women here, she was ALSO a war hero. Until I get back to finish writing up a blog post about her, go ahead and watch this amazing documentary: https://tubitv.com/movies/590403/nancy-wake-gestapo-s-most-wanted?start=true

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वो महिला जासूस जो फ्लर्ट करके नाजी सैनिकों को ट्रैप करती थी और लेती थी जानकारियां कोई महिला अगर खूबसूरत हो, बिंदास हो. गजब की लड़ाका सैनिक भी हो.और जासूसी के काम में इतनी तेज तो आप उसके बारे में क्या कहेंगे.

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Madame Andree - the fighter

Lucienne Carlier - the smuggler

Helene - the spy

The White Mouse - the target

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake is my new hero.

I could go on and on about everything that is right in this book - the acts of bravery, the love story, Lawhon's storytelling - but I won't. Trust me, it's amazing.

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Nancy Wake: A story of a British spy

Nancy Wake: A story of a British spy

If a woman is beautiful, she should be cool. Wonderful combatant should also be a soldier, and if you are so fast in the work of espionage, what will you say about him? The name of this woman was Nancy Grace Augusta Wake. People called him Nancy Wake. She was among the famous women fighters of the second world war. In many ways, his personality was immense.

Born in Roseneath, Wellington, New…

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French Resistance hero Nancy Wake dies at 98 In this March 2, 2004 file photo, Australian spy and French resistance hero Nancy Wake displays her medal after she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in London. Wake has died in London at age 98 on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. In this March 2, 2004 file photo, Australian spy and French resistance hero Nancy Wake displays her medal after she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in London. Wake has died in London at age 98 on Sunday, Aug. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/Adam Butler, File)( / AP) BY ROD MCGUIRK, ASSOCIATED PRESS AUG. 7, 2011 10:02 PM PT CANBERRA, Australia — Australian Nancy Wake, who as a spy became one the Allies’ most decorated servicewomen for her role in the French Resistance during World War II, has died in London, officials said Monday. She was 98. Code named “The White Mouse” by the Gestapo during the war, Wake died Sunday in a London nursing home, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.

“Nancy Wake was a woman of exceptional courage and resourcefulness whose daring exploits saved the lives of hundreds of Allied personnel and helped bring the Nazi occupation of France to an end,” Gillard said in a statement.

Trained by British intelligence in espionage and sabotage, Wake helped to arm and lead 7,000 Resistance fighters in weakening German defenses before the D-Day invasion in the last months of the war.

While distributing weapons, money and code books in Nazi-occupied France, she evaded capture many times and reached the top of the Gestapo’s wanted list, according to her biographer, Peter FitzSimons.

“They called her the ‘la Souris Blanche,’ ‘the White Mouse,’ because every time they had her cornered … she was gone again,” FitzSimons told Australian Broadcast Corp. radio on Monday.

“Part of it was she was a gorgeous looking woman,” he said. “The Germans were looking for someone who looked like them: aggressive, a man with guns - and she was not like that.”

France decorated her with its highest military honor, the Legion d’Honneur, as well as three Croix de Guerre and the Medaille de la Resistance.

France’s junior minister for veterans affairs, Marc Laffineur, hailed Wake on Monday as “an exceptional woman whose commitment to liberty was matched only by her courage and tenacity in the face of the Nazi occupation. Nancy Wake was an intrepid Resistance fighter, a genius saboteur and spy, who gave everything in her fight to rescue France.”

The United States awarded her its Medal of Freedom and Britain, the George Medal. Her only Australian honor did not come until 2004, when she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.

Born Aug. 30, 1912, in the New Zealand capital of Wellington, Nancy Grace Augusta Wake was the youngest of six siblings. When she was 2 the family moved to Sydney, but her father left the family soon after and returned to New Zealand.

Wake became a nurse before an inheritance from a New Zealand aunt enabled her to run away from home in 1931 and fulfill her dream of traveling to New York, London and Paris, she said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. in 1985.

After studying journalism in London, she became a correspondent for The Chicago Tribune in Paris and reported on the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany. A 1933 trip to interview Hitler in Vienna led her to become committed to bringing down the Nazis.

“I saw the disagreeable things that he was doing to people, first of all the Jews,” she told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio in 1985. “I thought it was quite revolting.”

When World War II broke out in 1939, she was living in the French city of Marseille with her first husband, French industrialist Henri Fiocca. She helped British servicemen and Jews escape the German occupying force.

Her husband was eventually seized, tortured and killed by the Gestapo. But Wake managed to escape in 1943 through Spain to London, where she received the espionage training before helping to lead the French Resistance in its final days.

Wake continued working for British intelligence in Europe after the war until 1957, when she moved back to Australia and married British fighter pilot John Forward. She moved back to Britain in 2001, four years after Forward’s death. She never had children.

According to her wishes, Wake’s body is expected to be cremated privately and her ashes scattered next spring at Montlucon in central France, where she fought in a heroic 1944 attack on the local Gestapo headquarters.

Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted

During World War II, Nancy Wake bravely fought against the Nazis in war-torn France. Pursued by German spies, Wake took a stand for the French resistance. This is her story. Directors Mike Smith Starring Rachael Blampied, Owen Black, William Kircher

🔗 👉 https://www.amazon.com/Nancy-Wake-Gestapos-Most-Wanted

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NANCY WAKE

Another book I read this year was about Nancy Wake a woman whose name I knew but knew nothing about except she was known as the White Mouse by the Gestapo. She was born on the 30 August 1912 in Wellington, New Zealand, she passed away on the 7 August 2011. Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, AC, GM was a nurse and journalist who joined the French Resistance and later the Special Operations Executive…

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Nancy Wake, la espía británica conocida como Ratón Blanco

Nancy Wake, la espía británica conocida como Ratón Blanco

Nancy Wake, la espía británica conocida como Ratón Blanco

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake nació en Nueva Zelanda el 30 de agosto de 1911 y de joven fue a vivir a Australia, pero a los 16 años, después de la muerte de su padre, se fugó del hogar y aprendió el oficio de enfermera.

Con 200 libras que había heredado de una tía viajó a New York y después a Londres, donde se convirtió en periodista…

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Elizabeth Debicki to Star in World War II Spy Thriller Limited Series ‘Code Name Hélène’

Elizabeth Debicki to Star in World War II Spy Thriller Limited Series ‘Code Name Hélène’

Just recently, The Great Gatsby and Tenet star Elizabeth Debicki was cast as Princess Diana for the last two seasons of The Crown. But an upcoming limited series will take her even further back into history.

Elizabeth Debicki will bring her towering, elegant stature to the new international limited series Code Name Hélène, which will tell the true story of Nancy Grace Augusta Wake, a New…

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TLT fans: did you guys know about the real Wake? I hadn’t heard about her until we covered World War II in my world civ class this semester

Nancy Grace Augusta Wake (1912-2011) was a covert operative who was at the top of the Nazi’s most wanted list in WW2, nicknamed “The White Mouse” for her ability to repeatedly evade capture. She was born in New Zealand with Māori heritage, grew up in Australia, and joined the Resistance after traveling to Europe and witnessing the harsh treatment of Jews in Vienna by the Nazis

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Nancy Wake

Wake was a resistance spy in World War II, and became Germany's most wanted person. 

She was born Nancy Grace Augusta Wake in New Zealand in 1912. After leaving home at a young age, she became a nurse, and then a journalist. In 1940, she joined the Resistance, working in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). For the war, she became a saboteur, an organizer, and a guerrilla fighter. Because she was so hard to pin down and capture, she earned the code name "The White Mouse". 

Wake was the most decorated service woman of WWII. She died in 2011.