R.I.P. a distinguished woman hero of WWII

Nancy Wake could shoot with the men, run with the men, drink with the men, and if there was any cooking to be done, she made sure the men did it. She was one of the most decorated agents of WWII, named "the White Mouse" by the Gestapo because she was so good at getting away.

Married to a wealthy man who entered the war as an ambulance driver, she began by helping downed British airmen to escape France to Britain, then served as an agent doing radio and resistance work in France. After the war she was awarded the British George medal, three French Croix de Guerre and the French Médaille de la Résistance, and the American Medal of Freedom. The French later made her a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur.

She was a hard warrior in a hard time, and she lived to be 98. One more agent from WWII France, St. Peter. She did her time in hell.





cross-posted from my fan journal